Major Events in Film History

Question 1

Photo process

Answer 1

Daguerreotypes, Glass Plates, Ambrotypes, Tintypes

Question 2

First Moving Image

Answer 2

1872 - Muybridge in Series

Question 3

Kinetoscope

Answer 3

invented in 1891 by Thomas Edison

Question 4

Cinemographe

Answer 4

invented in 1895 by the Lumiere Bros.

Question 5

Georges Méliès

Answer 5

use of camera cutting to play tricks on views

Question 6

Suspense (1913) by Lois Weber

Answer 6

Female director and use of multiple scenes at once

Question 7

The Move West! New producers moved west due to:

Answer 7

Weather
Variety of Locations
Cheap Land
Distance from Edison

Question 8

Motion Pictures Patent Company

Answer 8

The Edison Trust 1908

Question 9

IMP (Independent Moving Pictures Company)

Answer 9

Carl Laemmle 1909

Question 10

Silent Comedy gets BIG

Answer 10

Charlie Chaplin
Harold Lloyd
Buster Keaton

Question 11

Gertie the Dinosaur

Answer 11

Winsoy McCay 1914

Question 12

RCA (Radio Corporation of America)

what year

Answer 12

1919

Question 13

First Television systems invented

Answer 13

1920s

Question 14

Expressionism

Answer 14

1920s

Question 15

Constructivism

Answer 15

1920s

Question 16

Soviet Montage/Montage of Attractions

Answer 16

1925

Question 17

Vitaphone

Answer 17

1926

High price and hard to access

Question 18

The jazz Singer

Answer 18

1927

Question 19

Radio Act of 1927, General Order 40, FRC

Answer 19

1927

Question 20

NBC (National Broadcasting Company)

Answer 20

1927

Question 21

CBS (Colombia Broadcasting System)

Answer 21

1928