Final Exam

Question 1

What is a frame?

Answer 1

a single image that is part of a motion picture

Question 2

What is a shot?

Answer 2

A series of unbroken frames

Question 3

a “blink” is like a

Answer 3

cut

Question 4

who invented the daguerreotype

Answer 4

Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre

Question 5

when was the daguerreotype invented

Answer 5

1839

Question 6

The horse galloping in motion in 1872 was created by who

Answer 6

Eadweard Muybridge

Question 7

who created Man walking around the corner, Accordion Player, and The Roundhay Garden scene

Answer 7

Louis Le Prince

Question 8

who invented the kinetoscope in 1891

Answer 8

Thomas Edison

Question 9

who invented the Cinématographe in 1895

Answer 9

Auguste & Louis Lumière

Question 10

who directed Playing Cards and The Magic Table

Answer 10

Georges Méliès

Question 11

What is a scene

Answer 11

Part of a film in a continuous location and timeframe

Question 12

What is a sequence

Answer 12

Several scenes that create an arc of
the story

Question 13

who directed Terrible Teddy, The Grizzly King” (1901)

Answer 13

William S. Porter

Question 14

Who directed The Great Train Robbery 1903

Answer 14

Edwin S. Porter

Question 15

who directed A Trip to the Moon (1902)

Answer 15

Georges Méliès

Question 16

who directed Suspense (1913)

Answer 16

Lois Weber

Question 17

What are the different “wide” shots

Answer 17

Extreme Long Shot, Long Shot, Full Shot

Question 18

What are the different “Medium” shots

Answer 18

Medium Full Shot, Medium Shot, Medium Close-Up

Question 19

What are the different “close: shots

Answer 19

Medium Close-Up, Close-Up, Extreme Close-Up

Question 20

Where does the Plan American shot end

Answer 20

about halfway down the leg

Question 21

Why did producers move to California

Answer 21

Weather, variety of locations, lots of land for purchase, distance from Edison

Question 22

in 1908, Thomas Edison founded what

Answer 22

Motion Pictures Patent Company or Edison Trust

Question 23

IMP (Independent Moving Pictures Company) was founded by who

Answer 23

Carl Laemmle

Question 24

Who created the United Artists Studio

Answer 24

Chaplin, Pickford, Fairbanks, & D. W. Griffith

Question 25

Charlie Chaplin's first feature film was

Answer 25

The Kid

Question 26

Who directed The Immigrant

Answer 26

Charles Chaplin

Question 27

Eadweard Muybridge took the first big step towards projected motion picture with his photographs of

Answer 27

a galloping horse

Question 28

Though created in 1902, George Melies's A Trip to the Moon used all of the following cinema techniques except

Answer 28

moving camera

Question 29

The Great Train Robbery (1903), although shot in Fort Lee, New Jersey, helped created what genre

Answer 29

Western

Question 30

Despite their violence and downbeat themes, audiences of the 1930s-40s appreciated the gangster film genre for what reason

Answer 30

reflection of societal struggles during the Great Depression and the challenges of urban life

Question 31

Who created Betty Boop and and Popeye the Sailor

Answer 31

Fleischer Studios to rival Disney

Question 32

Herbert and Natalie Kalmus revolutionized the look of movies when they founded this type of film processing

Answer 32

Technicolor

Question 33

"A Story of a Flying Fortress" is the subtitle of William Wyler's documentary about what military aircraft

Answer 33

Memphis Belle

Question 34

Documentary filmmaker Connie Field looked at women taking on men's jobs during WWII in her 1980 debut, The Life and Times of ___

Answer 34

Rosie the Riveter

Question 35

Who/What finally forced Hollywood to self-censor movies?

Answer 35

The Production Code of 1934

Question 36

This creator of radio's The War on the Worlds went on to direct films such as The Magnificent Ambersons and and Citizen Kane

Answer 36

Orson Welles

Question 37

Describe an element of Louis Weber's Suspense that seemed innovative or inspiring.

Answer 37

Split screen technique to show multiple perspectives. the Intruder breaking in and the scared mother.

Question 38

The most famous scene in Sergei Eisenstein's The Battleship Potemkin when the Czar's Soldiers descended the ___ Steps and brutalize the crowds

Answer 38

Odessa

Question 39

Eisenstein and Lev Kuleshov Pioneered and editing technique that valued the psychological juxtaposition of shots to heighten the emotions of the viewer

Answer 39

Montage of Attractions

Question 40

This stone faced silent comedian remains legendary for elaborate gags and stunts on view in films such as The Goat, Sherlock Jr., and The General

Answer 40

Buster Keaton

Question 41

Visual distortions, anti-realistic designs, and dreamlike psychological underpinnings make both The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Nosferatu examples of what German cinematic movement?

Answer 41

German Expressionism

Question 42

Who directed 1920's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari?

Answer 42

Robert Wiene

Question 43

Who directed The Birth of a Nation

Answer 43

D.W. Griffith

Question 44

Why was The Birth of a Nation controversial?

Answer 44

It represents the KKK as hero's and black people are played by white actors with blackface

Question 45

What novel is the Birth of a Nation based off?

Answer 45

The Clansman by Thomas Dixon Jr.

Question 46

Who below was not a director whose films fit into the Italian Neorealism movement? Marcello Mastroianni Vittorio De Sica Roberto Rossellini Federico Fellini

Answer 46

Marcello Mastroianni

Question 47

Put the following items in chronological order in 1(oldest)-5(newest). Rise of German Expressionist Cinema Georges Melies' Trip to the Moon Release of Ten Minutes to Live Invention of the Cinematographe Arrival of synchronized sound in feature films

Answer 47

1) Invention of the Cinematographe (1895) 2) Georges Méliès' A Trip to the Moon (1902) 3) Rise of German Expressionist Cinema (1910s–1920s) 4) Arrival of synchronized sound in feature films (1927, with The Jazz Singer) 5) Release of Ten Minutes to Live (1932)

Question 48

Because the same host introduced each episode, yet each week the cast, stories, writers, and mood were different. The Twilight Zone is what kind of series?

Answer 48

Anthology

Question 49

Who created The Twilight Zone?

Answer 49

Rod Serling

Question 50

This director often made movies that explored voyeurism. The film we watched of his had an injured Jeff (James Stewart) staring out a window out the back of his apartment

Answer 50

Alfred Hitchcock

Question 51

Who starred in Rear Window

Answer 51

James Stewart and Grace Kelley