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1
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As it refers to early motion pictures, the term cinema of attraction suggests that audiences were primarily drawn to early cinema by

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Films ability to offer visual amazement and new ways of seeing the world

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Which of the following was NOT an element of Abel Gance’s French Impressionist film making seen in Napoleon (1927)?

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Experimentation with synchronized sound that anticipated moments in The Jazz Singer, which was released later that year

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Georges Méliès is remembered as a pioneer for his _________.

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Trick films with groundbreaking special effects

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Unlike elsewhere in Europe, the German film industry actually flourished in the years after World War I. T/F?

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TRUE

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Actress and producer Alla Nazimova lived openly in Hollywood with another actress. However, her silent films never approached an open acknowledgment of gay identity. T/F?

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FALSE

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Compared to most of Hollywood history after the development of sound films, women were far more prevalent at all levels of the industry in the silent era. T/F?

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TRUE

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What is a race film?

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Films aimed primarily at black audiences and typically produced by smaller production companies outside of Hollywood

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Many early westerns were filmed on the outskirts of New York City. T/F?

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TRUE

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Which of the following is NOT an achievement credited to Lois Weber?

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She ascended to an executive role at Metro Pictures, a position described at the time as “the most responsible job ever held by a woman.”

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The increasing use of close-ups, cut-ins, and intertitles as a means of presenting increasingly complex stories came about in which age of silent film history?

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Silent cinema’s transitional age

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“Actualities” are films which depict _________.

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SCENES FROM DAILY LIFE

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What caused the nickelodeon boom around 1905?

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The emergence of film exchanges, which rented movies to the exhibitors who built the Nickelodeons. Easy access to a large quantity of films allowed exhibitors to cycle through many films and keep the audiences coming back

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The nickelodeon was the name given to the huge, fancy new movie theatres built in the 1910s as the feature-length film became increasingly popular. T/F?

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FALSE

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What best describes the experience of seeing a film in the late 1890s and early 1900s?

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City-dwellers might see a film in between music and comedy acts at a vaudeville show, while in the countryside traveling projectionists would provide fleeting opportunities for locals to catch a film

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French directors argued for cinema pur, which is a form of filmmaking that is best described as _________.

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Emphasizing visual elements unique to cinema, like camera movement and complex editing

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Not only did shooting outlines include instructions for camera operators to crank faster or slower when shooting certain scenes, major films often included instructions to projectionists on how fast or slow they should project the film in the theater. T/F?

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TRUE

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Roughly how long were the films screened at the Grand Cafe in Paris by the Lumière brothers in 1895?

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Between 5 seconds and a minute

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Which of the following best explains the founding of United Artists?

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In was formed in response to Hollywood studios’ strict control over directors

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The Italian epic Cabiria (1914) is noteworthy for its __________.

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Elaborate tracking shots and camera movement

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Studios controlled films from production, through distribution, to exhibition from the rise of Hollywood until the 1948 US v. Paramount decision. This business practice is known as __________.

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Vertical integration

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By most estimates, at least 80% of the silent films made by 1930 were destroyed, lost, or deteriorated beyond repair. T/F?

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TRUE

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As covered in class, Clara Bow epitomized a double-standard in 1920s American culture. What is the best explanation of this double-standard?

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Bow was a sex symbol on the screen but, unlike her male counterparts, was vilified for her sex life in real life

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________ was the name of the practice in which studios forced exhibitors to agree to buy many other films from a studio in order to get the rights to show the most high-profile features.

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Block booking

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What is a key reason why Italian filmmakers were the first to produce epic films on massive scales?

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The low costs of labor in Italy

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What is the best description of the Kuleshov effect?

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The audience’s response to the image of a person’s face can change depending on the other images shown around it in a film

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26
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French comedian Max Linder, cinema’s first international comic star, had a strong influence on _________.

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Charlie Chaplin

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The popularity of the Edison Kinetoscope was brief, and Edison soon built the Vitascope as a rival to the Lumière brothers’ Cinématographe. T/F?

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TRUE

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What role did the post-World War I German government, the Weimar, play in German film?

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The government supported the film industry with subsidies

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Which of the following was NOT an early silent film genre?

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Comic book films

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What prompted the switch from nickelodeons to more spacious and luxurious movie theaters in the mid 1910s?

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The development of the feature-length film

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The close-ups and point-of-view shots found in films before 1905 were mainly used as momentary stylistic flourishes rather than as systematic storytelling devices. T/F?

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TRUE

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Why did Soviet filmmakers spend so much time re-editing old films and foreign imports in the early 1920s?

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There was hardly any film stock in the years after World War 1, so filmmakers could not shoot new film

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What did the German brothers Max and Emil Skladanowsky invent?

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The Bioscop, a machine capable of projecting moving pictures

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Which of the following statements is NOT true about the significance of Sessue Hayakawa’s role as “a debonair and dangerous creditor who threatens” the female lead in Cecil B. Demille’s The Cheat (1915)?

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Unlike other Asian and Asian-American actors who were often cast as Native Americans, Arabs, and other ethnicities, Hayakawa never again had to perform in an “exotic” ethnic role

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35
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The language barrier of intertitles prevented silent films from being a global phenomenon. T/F?

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FALSE

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The earliest-known feature-length film is The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906), which was made in ________.

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AUSTRALIA

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37
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Early silent films avoided adaptations of famous operas and Shakespearean plays. The absence of sound made such subject-matter impossible to adapt. T/F?

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FALSE

38
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During the silent era, the speed at which films were projected was standardized at 16 frames per second by 1914. T/F?

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FALSE

39
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What were the “screen magazines” that distributors offered to theater managers?

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Packages of short films that could be shown together before a feature film

40
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Matinee idol refers to ______.

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A male film star with a romantic appeal that was thought to draw a female audience in the daytime while men were at work

41
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Why was Warner Bros. the only studio to agree to partner with Western Electric in the effort to make sound movies?

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As a smaller studio, Warner Bros. had nothing to lose and success might catapult them to the top of the Hollywood pack

42
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Who was the most popular animated cartoon character of the 1920s?

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Felix the Cat

43
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The Great Train Robbery (1903) marked the beginning of cinema of narrative integration, because it was the first time that the specific details of characters mattered a lot for the enjoyment of the audience. T/F?

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FALSE

44
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Indian film developed without any external influence from international filmmaking, leading to the unique Bollywood style that is still successful today. T/F?

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FALSE

45
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Which of the following was NOT a response to the release of Birth of a Nation (1915)?

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Oscar Micheaux, the most important black filmmaker of the era, was forced to move to France to continue his career

46
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More popular in Europe and most notably employed in the US by Charlie Chaplin, the practice of carefully crafting an arrangement of space and action within a mostly static frame is referred to as ___________.

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Staging in Depth

47
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Which of the following was the greatest effect of the sound revolution in film?

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Further consolidation of the industry, as many smaller studios that could not manage the transformation went bankrupt

48
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Around what date did nickelodeons start to appear?

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1908

49
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As Hollywood transitioned to sound, some films were released in two versions, one with dialogue and one without. T/F?

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TRUE

50
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The first permanent theaters were called ______.

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NICKELODEONS

51
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The first successful public display of film projection was done in Berlin by the Skladanowsky brothers. T/F?

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TRUE

52
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The earliest animated films used stop-motion filming of physical objects rather than hand drawing cartoons frame by frame. T/F?

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TRUE

53
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Playwright Roy McCardell, hired by the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, is often credited as the first screenwriter in the history of film. Which of the following was NOT one of his responsibilities as a story editor.

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Editing the dialogue in screenplays to prepare the scripts for the actors to rehearse

54
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The Lumière brothers were so convinced by the long term appeal of motion pictures that in 1905 they sold their photography business to pursue films full time. T/F?

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FALSE

55
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Between 1911 and 1925 half of all films copyrighted in the U.S. were written by women. T/F?

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TRUE

56
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In which country did silent films remain popular for almost two decades after The Jazz Singer?

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JAPAN

57
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The Great Train Robbery (1903) featured colored accents on clothing, like a dress or a bandana. How would such specific items be colored in the silent era?

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HAND COLORING

58
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Unlike theater pricing today, film ticket prices in the silent era were tied to the quality of the film being shown; the better the perceived quality, the more expensive the ticket. T/F?

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TRUE

59
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Which studio led the way in experimenting with synchronized sound in the 1920s?

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WARNER BROS

60
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What is benshi, the unique element of Japanese silent cinema that helped make silent film production last into the 1940s in Japan?

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The specially trained performer who provided live narration accompanying almost all silent films in Japan

61
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At a time when naturalistic acting was the norm in filmmaking, Alice Guy-Blaché encouraged her performers to pursue a more exaggerated style. T/F?

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FALSE

62
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Film that could capture and record natural colors was not invented until after the silent era, so silent film could only rely on tinting, toning, and hand painting to add color. T/F?

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FALSE

63
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Charlie Chaplin quickly saw the advantages of sound films and completely changed his film style after 1930. T/F?

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FALSE

64
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Which of the following statements is NOT true about filmmaker Alice Guy-Blaché?

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Guy-Blaché co-founded the United Artists

65
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Walt Disney’s Steamboat Willie (1928), starring Mickey Mouse, was first shown in a test screening using live sound effects. Later, the production team created a synchronized soundtrack for wider release. T/F?

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TRUE

66
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The single biggest factor in the decline of French filmmaking from its early dominance was _________.

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THE DEVASTATION OF WORLD WAR 1

67
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Which of the following is NOT a reason why film actors finally started to become celebrities in the 1910s?

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Mary Pickford’s marriage to Douglas Fairbanks was the first Hollywood event to attract public attention to the lives of movie stars

68
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Which country rivaled the United States in film output in the first decade of silent cinema, even surpassing American movie making in quantity of movies made for a period?

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FRANCE

69
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Which coloring process added color only to the “whites” of black and white film?

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TINTING

70
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Why does The Sprinkler Sprinkled (1895) stand out from the other Lumière films shown at the Grand Cafe in 1895?

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IT ATTEMPTS TO TELL A COMICAL STORY

71
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What set of films booked large American theaters and charged much higher ticket prices than usual, thus inspiring D.W. Griffith to do the same with Birth of a Nation in 1915?

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ITALIAN EPICS

72
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What new problem did audio technicians face by the mid-1910s in their efforts to create synchronized sound for movies?

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The proliferation of big new movie palaces meant that they also had to figure out how to amplify the sound throughout a large space

73
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Which of the following was NOT a “sound” feature that could be found in the earliest years of silent film?

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Phonographs that played a record synchronized to the film

73
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By 1922, just eight major studios accounted for close to 80% of all domestic film production in the United States. T/F?

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TRUE

74
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Which of the following was NOT a feature of the release of Birth of a Nation in 1915?

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It was shown in 1000s of nickelodeons across the country in a huge opening night to capitalize on the hype

75
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The construction of movie palaces meant that movie-going became more stratified. In other words, people of different socio-economic groups saw different films in different types of theaters. T/F?

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TRUE

76
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Progressive Era reformers often used health concerns as an excuse to monitor and close down crowded nickelodeons in minority neighborhoods. T/F?

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TRUE

77
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Who is considered the first female filmmaker?

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Alice-Guy Blaché

78
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What is the Hollywood studio system (as it came to be in the silent era)?

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The method which broke down the production of films into a sort of assembly line, with writers, designers, directors, and editors all piecing projects together

79
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Why did Edison’s Kinetophone fail to solve the problem of synchronized sound and film?

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It was difficult to operate and could only work on films lasting less than 5 minutes

80
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Almost all silent film stars had to retire with the arrival of sound because they lacked the voice and the skills to learn a new style of filmmaking. T/F?

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FALSE

81
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Robert Flaherty created Nanook of the North (1922) after a similar earlier film was lost in a fire. T/F?

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TRUE

82
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Which of the following was not a feature of nickelodeons in the late 1900s and early 1910s?

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Most venues were massive spaces with hundreds of comfortable seats

82
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Seeking to differentiate their work from foreign imports, Australian filmmakers were regularly producing feature-length films long before other nations adopted the practice. T/F?

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TRUE

83
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Who was the camera operator best known for many years of collaboration with D.W. Griffith?

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BILLY BITZER

84
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Clara Bow’s nickname was “the It girl.” T/F?

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TRUE

85
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Cranking a camera at a faster rate results in images that appear sped up when the film is projected. T/F?

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FALSE

86
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Which studio and producer could be considered the king of slapstick comedy in the silent era?

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KEYSTONE PICTURES AND MACK SENNETT

87
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The first known example of a moving camera can be found in ________.

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PANORAMA OF THE GRAND CANAL

88
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Who is Maciste?

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A popular strongman character who first appeared in Cabiria

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