IFM Test#2

Question 1

In 1948 what established itself as a rival force to film showings?

Answer 1

Television

Question 2

The prevailing mood of movies that won Best Picture from 1945 to 1950 was much darker, and tackled serious issues

Answer 2

The lost weekend
The best years of our lives
Gentlemen’s agreement

Question 3

FILM NOIR

Answer 3

a style of film centered on the dark and pessimistic, with images of black and white contrasted with light and dark, creating deep shadows

Question 4

Musically

Answer 4

The movies had scores that had minimal musical cues, orchestration for small ensembles, prevalent use of low-pitched instruments/lower strings, harsh dissonant harmonies and the use of jazz and angular disjunct melodies.

Question 5

was awarded 7 Oscars, including Best Picture and best Scoring of a Dramatic Picture-tells the story of three veterans arriving home after the war. The youngest, Homer Parrish, was played by Harold Russell, a real-life paratrooper who lost both hands in a grenade explosion, which won him Best Supporting Actor, and a special Oscar for bring hope and courage to veterans, and remains the only actor to win 2 Oscars for 1 role in Film.

Answer 5

The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

Question 6

The musical score was written by _____, who began his career working for Max Steiner, Erich Korngold, and Alfred Newman.

Answer 6

Hugo Friedhofer

Question 7

Friedhofer uses what to illuminate differentiating themes in the movie, including the title theme—Best Years, Boone City (where the soldiers are returning home simultaneously), and the love theme-the union of Homer and Wilma; the “Memories” theme, “Home” and “Wilma”–

Answer 7

Leitmotifs

Question 8

who established himself as the foremost British director of the Silent Film era.

Answer 8

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Question 9

Hitchcock’s films

Answer 9

Rear Window (1954), Vertigo (1958), North by Northwest (1959), Psycho (1960), and The Birds(1963),

Question 10

The 1950s saw massive changes in Film what were they?

Answer 10

1) The Film Industry was suffering massive losses due to competition from television;
2)Louis B. Mayer resigned from MGM in 1951
3)several film studios sold lots and movie stars broke away from studio contracts.

Question 11

what had become household mainstays in the 1950s. in 1950 their was 6 million in America, and by 1960 60 million

Answer 11

Television sets

Question 12

What was cheaper, and practically saved cinema by brining in younger audiences and revenue through sales of records.

Answer 12

Popular music.

Question 13

how Jazz changed in the 1950s

Answer 13

as composers sought to use the stylistic music to portray moods of sexual intensity and violence.

Question 14

A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) Director: composer:

Answer 14

Director- Elia Kazan
composer- Alex North

Question 15

Considered to be Hollywood’s greatest Western

Answer 15

High Noon

Question 16

High Noons Composer

Answer 16

Dimitri Tiomkin

Question 17

Who sang Tiomkin’s ballad “Do not Forsake Me”

Answer 17

Tex Ritter

Question 18

Leitmotifs in the score represent

Answer 18

Will and Amy, Frank Miller, and Helen

Question 19

in 1955 this was the first rock tune to hit the top of the Billboard chart, and became the dominant force in music, with performers such as Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, Fats Domino and Little Richard

Answer 19

Bill Haley’s “Rock Around The Clock”

Question 20

“Rock Around the Clock” appeared in what movie

Answer 20

“The Blackboard Jungle (1955)”

Question 21

a film that dealt with juvenile delinquency in high school-adults associated rock music with rebellious youth and teenagers quickly gravitated to this new, exciting music.

Answer 21

“The Blackboard Jungle” (1955)

Question 22

who’s music was featured in Love Me Tender (1956) and Jailhouse Rock (1957) provided illustrious exposure for the new genre,

Answer 22

Elvis Presley

Question 23

what 3 musicals topped the 1950s list

Answer 23

An American in Paris (1951), Singin’ in the Rain (1952) and Gigi (1958).

Question 24

who’s music and his symphonic poem An American in Paris was featured in American in Paris?

Answer 24

George Gershwin

Question 25

It became only the second musical to win an Academy Award for Best Picture.

Answer 25

American in Paris (1951)

Question 26

In the 1950’s this played a larger role in films, as well as the music that accompanied them.

Answer 26

American Nationalism and Expressionism

Question 27

who won back to back Oscars for Sunset Boulevard (1950) and A Place in the Sun (1951) for his effective soundtracks to these dark films.

Answer 27

Frank Waxman

Question 28

What movie specifically deals with mob influence and crime on the Longshoremen’s Union, focusing on the heroic motives of Terry Malloy (Marlon Brando) to confront corruption, as he testifies against the mob before a Senate hearing

Answer 28

Elia Kazan’s On The Waterfront

Question 29

The score for On the Waterfront was brilliantly orchestrated by who was equally successful as a composer, concert pianist and conductor.

Answer 29

Leonard Bernstein

Question 30

a phenomenon started in 1956 that saw the birth of three epics-Around the World in 80 Days, War and Peace, and The Ten Commandments

Answer 30

Blockbuster Film

Question 31

In the late 1950s, two great films were produced by the master Alfred Hitchcock

Answer 31

VERTIGO (1958) and NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959)

Question 32

The religious epic was a genre that was as timely as it was novel. It also grossed over 40 million dollars, and the most garnered since Gone With The Wind.

Answer 32

Cecil B DeMille’s remake of The Ten Commandments

Question 33

Why did Elmer Bernstein replace young?

Answer 33

Elmer Bernstein replaced him when Young became ill.

Question 34

Who did Elmer Bernstein replace Young with?

Answer 34

DeMille who had strict instructions to Bernstein as to what he wanted as a director to be acceptable music for the film.

Question 35

what won 11 academy awards, including Best Picture and Best Scoring of a Dramatic picture, and had surpassed the record of 10 Oscars of Gone With The Wind

Answer 35

Ben Hur(1959)

Question 36

a Hungarian musicologist who had scored the films Quo Vadis (1951) and Julius Caesar (1953), and Ben Hur(1959)

Answer 36

Miklos Rósza

Question 37

Ben Hur features many what? that typified the music of the early Christian church.

Answer 37

modal scales, parallel harmonies and a lack of harmonic progressions

Question 38

Rosza’s familiarity with what? helped him to become acquainted with Roman, Hebrew and early Christian music

Answer 38

Western

Question 39

The 1960s contained many cultural upheavals what where they?

Answer 39

the threat of Nuclear War and the apex of the Cold war, civil rights, sexual liberation, assassinations, the Vietnam War, and the Moon landing

Question 40

The gulf between what and what widened even further

Answer 40

“serious arts” and the “popular arts”

Question 41

Meanwhile, in Hollywood, the studios were being taken over by what? and what was being sold?

Question 42

____ that regulated the “morality” of pictures, was also abandoned (thank GOD)

Answer 42

the Hays Code

Question 43

Additionally-once movies were able to be shown on TV’s this term was coined.

Answer 43

“movie classics”

Question 44

PSYCHO The soundtrack, written by Who?

Answer 44

Bernard Hermann,

Question 45

Psycho is written for what kind of instrument and eliminates the colors that would have added to it by leaving out winds and percussion

Answer 45

string orchestra

Question 46

effects of the strings is extremely reminiscent of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring masterpiece, with hard accents and pizzicato effects

Answer 46

The percussive

Question 47

Hermann also favors writing the strings in what?

Answer 47

tonal clusters, or minor seconds and major sevenths