FIlm History Flashcards
Who was the first prominent female film director?
Alice Guy-Blaché (1890’s-1900’s)
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A ____ _______ is a device used to combine 2 strips of film on a screen.
Film Splice
(TB)
What was the first ever motion picture?
Roundhay Garden Scene
(CG)
What is recognized as the first commercially-available motion picture?
The Lumiere brothers’ Arrival of a Train
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What was the name of Edison’s patents company that was eventually busted in court for holding a monopoly over Hollywood?
Motion Picture Patents Company
(SW)
when was the kinetoscope invented
1891
(OS)
When was the first full length film created
1901
(OS)
What is often considered the first color movie?
A Trip to The Moon (1902)
(CG)
What was the first movie with sound
The Jazz Singer (1927)
(CG)
What was the first movie to have a gun shoot at the camera?
The Great Train Robbery (1903)
(CG)
Who invented the kinetoscope?
Thomas Edison and W.K.L Dickson
(TB)
What was the name of the very first film studio?
The Limelight Department
(TB)
Who invented the phantoscope?
Charles Francis Jenkins and Thomas Armat
(TB)
1888, George Eastman introduces the lightweight, inexpensive Kodak camera that…
uses film wound on rollers to shoot video.
(CS)
When was the first movie theater built?
1905
(CS)
What did Thomas Edison invent in the year 1910?
He introduced the kinetophone. (an early attempt to create a sound-film system)
(CS)
What year did Photoplay, (a magazine for movie fans) release its debut?
1912
(CS)
What major foundation-building film was released in 1915?
The Birth of a Nation, introducing the narrative close-up, the flashback and other elements that endure today as the structural principles of narrative filmmaking
(CS)
a category of low-budget horror, comedy, sexploitation, and action films – made in Australia after the introduction of the R rating in 1971
Ozploitation
(OS)
What was the Australian New Wave
It was an era of the resurgence in worldwide popularity of Australian cinema, particularly in the United States
(OS)
How was the Australian New wave different from Hollywood?
The films also shared a vitality, a love of open spaces, and a propensity for sudden violence and languorous sexuality
What was the driving factor behind German Expressionism?
During WW1, foreign films were banned in Germany.
(SW)
How did WWII affect Italian filmmaking?
Italy was in ruins, and people began to hate their happy, unrealistic films, and replace them with gritty, harsh realism.
(SW)
What are three of the film movements that began during the silent film era? (I provide three answers, but there are lots more)
Classical Hollywood, French Impressionism, German Expressionism
(SW)
