History of Film Final Flashcards

1
Q

Who is the director of The Great Train Robbery? and the year?

A

Edwin S. Porter
1903
(the first movie to tell a story)

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
2
Q

Who directed and starred in the film City Lights?

A

Charlie Chaplin and Virginia Cheryl
Year: 1931

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
3
Q

Who directed it happened one night?

A

Frank Capra
Starring Clark Gable & Claudette Colbert
Year: 1934

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
4
Q

Who directed Singing in the Rain?

A

Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly
Starring: Gene Kelly and Debby Reynolds
Year: 1952

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
5
Q

Who directed What’s up Doc?

A

Peter Bogdonavich
Starring: Barbara Streisand, Ryan O’neal & Madeline Kahn
Year: 1972

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
6
Q

Who directed Psycho?

A

Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles & John Gavin
Year: 1960

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
7
Q

Who directed The Searchers?

A

John Ford
Starring: John Wayne, Vera Miles & Jeffrey Hunter
Year: 1956

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
8
Q

Who directed Paths of Glory?

A

Stanley Kubrick
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker & Adolphe Menjou
Year: 1957

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
9
Q

Who directed Testament?

A

Lynn Littman
Starring: Jane Alexander & William Devane
Year: 1983

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
10
Q

Who directed Life is Beautiful?

A

Roberto Benigini
Starring: Roberto Benigini & Nicoletta Braschi
Year: 1997

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
11
Q

Who directed Citizen Kane?

A

Orson Welles
Starring: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore & Everett Sloane
Year: 1941

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
12
Q

Who directed The Night of The Hunter?

A

Charles Laughton
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters & Lillian Gish

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
13
Q

When Did sound come in to movies?

A

1927

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
14
Q

The reasons film industry moved out west?

A

More sunlight, better weather, and good old-fashioned patent violation.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
15
Q

The purpose of motion picture cameras

A

1890, Thomas Edison had the idea of creating a motion picture camera when he developed the idea of the moving image he did it with the intent that the moving image would do nothing more than record history.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
16
Q

The Edweard Muybridge experiment

A

1887, the railroad tycoon Leland Stanford was convinced that a horse ina galloping stride lifts all 4 hooves off the ground. The horse was too fast for the human eye to catch something like that. So, he got a friend of his Edweard Muybridge, whom was a photographer got 12 cameras to capture the horse and the horse tripped over the wire capturing that the horse did get all 4 hooves off the ground. The 12 photographs told us that is the foundation of motion pictures.

17
Q

The 3 filmmakers who changed motion pictures for the better

A

Charlie Chaplin
Mack Sennett
D.W. Griffith

18
Q

Boom Shot

A

a vertical camera movement achieved through the use of a crane or jib.

19
Q

Closeup

A

a photograph or movie shot taken of a subject or object at close range intended to show greater detail to the viewer.

20
Q

Cut shot

A

transitions between camera angles, such a wide establishing shot and a medium shot.

21
Q

Dissolve shot

A

fades away into another shot

22
Q

Deep Focus

A

a photographic and cinematographic technique using a large depth of field. Depth of field is the front-to-back range of focus in an image, or how much of it appears sharp and clear

23
Q

Dolly Shot

A

the camera follows backward, forward or moves alongside the subject being recorded.

24
Q

Fade

A

a subtype of dissolve transition that gradually moves to or from an image to or from black.

25
Q

Montage

A

a film editing technique in which a series of short shots are sequenced to condense space, time, and information.

26
Q

Pan shot

A

panning means swivelling a still or video camera horizontally from a fixed position.

27
Q

Wipe

A

a type of film transition where one shot replaces another by travelling from one side of the frame to another or with a special shape

28
Q

Director’s cut

A

an edited version of a film that is supposed to represent the director’s own approved edit in contrast to the theatrical release.