Movies

Question 1

Muybridge

Answer 1

Horse situation which led to the zoopraxiscope, projects slides onto a distance surface

Question 2

Edison

Answer 2

Kinetscope, built the first motion picture studio near New Jersey called Black Maria

Question 3

Lumiere Brothers

Answer 3

Filmer of everyday things
Shot in fixed frame (camera didn’t move)
Development of point and shoot (no waiting photography)
Cinematography (photographed and projected action)
Nickelodeons

Question 4

Block booking

Answer 4

requiring exhibitors to rent unpopular groups of movies to secure popular ones
- basically show low quality terms before they could show high quality terms

Question 5

Kinetoscope

Answer 5

Means motion
is a movie viewing machine
peep show device for the exhibition of kinetographs

Question 6

Nickelodeons

Answer 6

The first movie house for five cents

they were converted pawn shops or cigar stores or restauraunts

Question 7

Vertical Integration

Answer 7

systems where studios produced their own films, distributed them through their own outlets and exhibited them in their own theatres

Question 8

Blockbuster Mentality

Answer 8

Rude risk taking, more formalistic, business concerns dominate artistic considerations

Question 9

Merchandise-tie-ins

Answer 9

Selling non movie items to promote the items

$191 billion for studios in 2008

Question 10

Franchise films

Answer 10

Movies produced with full intention of producing several sequals

Question 11

Branding films

Answer 11

Films that are financed by sponsors to advance a certain product line

Question 12

Great Train Robbery

Answer 12

First american made motion picture to tell a story
First to use editing, intercutting of scenes and a mobile camera to tell a sophisticated story
First western

Question 13

A trip to the moon

Answer 13

first scientific movie
one shot movie (take one shot then move the camera)
Brought narratives to the medium of film
George Melies

Question 14

Birth of a Nation

Answer 14

Had emotion, suspense and was the most influential silent film
Ugly racist portrayal of Americans and symmphathetic treatment of Klu Klux Klan
Inspired protests
Used montage, went from 5 cents to 3 dollars

Question 15

Hays Office and MPPC

Answer 15

Wanted to improve the images of movies
Had to submit films first for approval
the MPPC forbids the use of profanity, limited bedroom scenes to married couples, specific clothing etc all enforced by a$25,000 fine
Designed to censor films

Question 16

How movies survived the great depression

Answer 16

Creativity, size and power

The use of vertical integration

Question 17

Who goes to the movies?

Answer 17

Teens or young adults

Question 18

Product Placement is Fair game

Answer 18

in California
Flat fee is paid upfront, products appear in movies
“commercial that lives on forever”
world wide distribution

Question 19

Alice Guy Blache

Answer 19

was the first female director

Question 20

Weber

Answer 20

Wrote scenarios and subtitles, acted, directed, edited, designed
did everything basically

Question 21

Glyn

Answer 21

Scenario writer
Clara Bow the “It Girl”
“new women” became a national obsession

Question 22

Harlow

Answer 22

became a sex symbol
“blonde bomb shell”
star of the 30’s

Question 23

African Americans in film

Answer 23

Usually barred from performing in films and caused controversy because they could go to them but couldn’t be in them