FIlm History

Question 1

Who was the first prominent female film director?

Answer 1

Alice Guy-Blaché (1890’s-1900’s)

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Question 2

A ____ _______ is a device used to combine 2 strips of film on a screen.

Answer 2

Film Splice

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Question 3

What was the first ever motion picture?

Answer 3

Roundhay Garden Scene

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Question 4

What is recognized as the first commercially-available motion picture?

Answer 4

The Lumiere brothers’ Arrival of a Train

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Question 5

What was the name of Edison’s patents company that was eventually busted in court for holding a monopoly over Hollywood?

Answer 5

Motion Picture Patents Company

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Question 6

when was the kinetoscope invented

Answer 6

1891
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Question 7

When was the first full length film created

Answer 7

1901
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Question 8

What is often considered the first color movie?

Answer 8

A Trip to The Moon (1902)

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Question 9

What was the first movie with sound

Answer 9

The Jazz Singer (1927)

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Question 10

What was the first movie to have a gun shoot at the camera?

Answer 10

The Great Train Robbery (1903)

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Question 11

Who invented the kinetoscope?

Answer 11

Thomas Edison and W.K.L Dickson

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Question 12

What was the name of the very first film studio?

Answer 12

The Limelight Department

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Question 13

Who invented the phantoscope?

Answer 13

Charles Francis Jenkins and Thomas Armat

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Question 14

1888, George Eastman introduces the lightweight, inexpensive Kodak camera that…

Answer 14

uses film wound on rollers to shoot video.
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Question 15

When was the first movie theater built?

Answer 15

1905
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Question 16

What did Thomas Edison invent in the year 1910?

Answer 16

He introduced the kinetophone. (an early attempt to create a sound-film system)
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Question 17

What year did Photoplay, (a magazine for movie fans) release its debut?

Answer 17

1912
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Question 18

What major foundation-building film was released in 1915?

Answer 18

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
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Question 19

a category of low-budget horror, comedy, sexploitation, and action films – made in Australia after the introduction of the R rating in 1971

Answer 19

Ozploitation
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Question 20

What was the Australian New Wave

Answer 20

It was an era of the resurgence in worldwide popularity of Australian cinema, particularly in the United States
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Question 21

How was the Australian New wave different from Hollywood?

Answer 21

The films also shared a vitality, a love of open spaces, and a propensity for sudden violence and languorous sexuality

Question 22

What was the driving factor behind German Expressionism?

Answer 22

During WW1, foreign films were banned in Germany.

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Question 23

How did WWII affect Italian filmmaking?

Answer 23

Italy was in ruins, and people began to hate their happy, unrealistic films, and replace them with gritty, harsh realism.

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Question 24

What are three of the film movements that began during the silent film era? (I provide three answers, but there are lots more)

Answer 24

Classical Hollywood, French Impressionism, German Expressionism

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Question 25

What film theory, that rose in the 1920s, is more concerned with film production than analysis?

Answer 25

Marxist Film Theory
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Question 26

What film movement (2002-present) focuses on dialogue over plot and relationships between young adults?

Answer 26

Mumblecore
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Question 27

When and where did third cinema begin?

Answer 27

1960s Latin America
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