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What era of science fiction movies did Vivian Sobchack study?

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1950 to 1975

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What year did Vivan Sobchack study science fiction movies?

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1980

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What years did Bernard Herrmann live?

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1911 to 1975

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What did Sobchack suggest was the reason why there were so few Stand-out scores in SF movies?

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few top-flight Hollywood composers had written for the science-fiction genre.

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What famous science fiction incident was Herrmann involved in?

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Orson Welles created a Radio Drama of War of the Worlds

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What happened because of the War Of The Worlds radio broadcast?

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People thought it was news of an actual alien invasion, and widespread panic followed which boosted Welles’ reputation

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What company broadcast the War of the Worlds Radio drama?

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CBS

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What movie did Herrmann work on in 1941?

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Citizen Kane

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Which score did Herrmann win an award for in 1941?

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The Devil and Daniel Webster

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What was one factor that played into The Day the Earth Stood Still being a successful movie?

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Herrmann was hired to compose the music for it

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Who is John Brosnan

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A historian

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What did Brosnan say about The Day the Earth Stood Still?

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It was one of the best sci-fi movies of its time

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What was different about the poster of The Day The Earth Stood Still than the movie?

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Gort never carries a blonde woman during the movie, but the poster shows this

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Who was Robert Wise?

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Director of The Day the Earth Stood Still

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What did Robert Wise tell Herrmann to do with the score?

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“Do something special”

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What instruments did Herrmann use in his score of 32 cues and 42 instruments that had not previously been used in a film score before?

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an electric violin, electric cello, and electric bass

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What other (excluding the ones that had not previously been used in other film scores) instruments did Herrmann use in his score of 32 cues and 42 instruments that he created from June 25-July 28?

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two Hammond organs, two pianos, two harps, two theremins, and several brass/percussion instruments

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What did Alfred Newman give to Herrmann as an “instrument” after he made a witty comment and “just in case”?

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electric hot water bottle

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Why did Herrmann not include woodwinds in his film score for The Day the Earth Stood Still?

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because he wanted to reflect an unearthly feeling of outer space without relying on such gimmicks as he was characterizing a man from another world

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In how many cues did Herrmann use theremins in his score?

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twenty-four

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What are other science fiction television that began to make regular use of theremins?

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The Jetsons, My Favorite Martian, The Twilight Zone, and The Outer Limits

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In what season of Star Trek does the soprano vocalist mimics the theremin’s eerie timbre?

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the second

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What uncommon strategy does Herrmann use that means various instruments are recorded separately?

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multi-tracking

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How did Herrmann combine the two cues (“Prelude” and “Outer Space”) of the single track for The Day the Earth Stood Still?

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as “R1P1” and “R1P1A” (R=reel and P=part)

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How did Herrmann connect the two cues ("R1P1" and "R1P1A") of the Day the Earth Stood Still?
with the indication of segue (telling the musicians to proceed to the next the section without a pause)
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What is the first cue of The Day the Earth Stood Still and how long does it last and contains what unusual techniques Herrmann employs?
"Prelude" which lasts seven seconds and uses musique concrete techniques
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What are the four groups of instruments in the "Prelude" cue labeled?
W, X, Y, and Z with each not having a time signature
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What is the task of instrument group W of the "Prelude" cue in The Day the Earth Stood Still?
consisting of two theremins that will gissando down during the whole cue; Theremin 1 begins on a very high B flat played triple piano and descends (and crescendos) over three octaves to a triple forte G flat. Theremin 2 starts above the staff on the G flat and reaches a low E flat (same dynamic change). The recording is played "forward" in the mix
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What is the only instrument group of the cue "Prelude" in The Day the Earth Stood Still? Hint: the name is sometimes considered a vowel
Y-- a trio of vibraphones-- whose material is delayed by two seconds
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In the instrument group Z of cue "Prelude", the two large and two small cymbals maintain their sounds by means of a cymbal roll is played like what instrument that is apart of the percussion group?
a drum
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In the "Outer Space" cue Herrmann foreshadows a style of composition that was prevalent in art and popular music beginning in the 1960s"?
minimalism
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True or false. The first keyboard-controlled synthesizer didn't exist when the Barrons craft their electronic score for Forbidden Planet.
TRUE
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What does DAWs stand for?
Digital Audio Workstations
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How did the storylines of film noir ended?"
The storylines of film noir movies often ended unhappily.
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What novel was the story Blade Runner based on?
Scott’s storyline was drawn from a dark 1968 novel by Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?283
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True or False. Blade Runner was was a success when it was first released.
FALSE
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When and where does the story Blade Runner take place?
Los Angeles in 2019
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When was the movie Blade Runner released?
1982
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Why are androids called replicants in the novel Blade Runner?
In the film’s wet, dark, grimy environment, androids are called “replicants” since they are replications of human beings.
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What tasks are assign to the replicants?
Replicants are built to do dangerous or unpleasant tasks elsewhere in the galaxy,
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Why are replicants in Blade Runner prohibited from being on Earth?
It is illegal for them to be on Earth, since it is so hard to distinguish the most recent model, Nexus-6, from actual humans.
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What is the lifespan of replicants in Blade Runner?
4 years
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Who is Rick Deckard from Blade Runner and what is (and was) his job?
Rick Deckard, a retired police officer, is forced back to his former work as a “blade runner,” whose job is to “retire” replicants who have gone rogue.
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What is the meaning of "blade runner."
Although the meaning of “blade runner” is never explained in the film, Scott got the term from another novel, The Bladerunner, where it is used to describe a person who obtains illegal medical supplies in a dystopian future where only “qualified” people are allowed to have health care.
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How does the Blade Runner end?
Deckard asks Rachel if she trusts him and then leads her to the building’s elevator, which closes behind them. At this point, in the Director’s Cut and in the Final Cut—two subsequent releases of the film after 1982—the closing credits start to roll, and Vangelis’s “End Titles” music (Listening Example 7) begins to play.
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How many versions does Blade Runner have?
There are seven versions of Blade Runner.
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Name one of the two men thought to have come up with the idea for The Day the Earth Stood Still?
Allen Adler, Irving Block
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What studio produced The Day the Earth Stood Still?
MGM
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What is the common Hollywood jargon for "yes"?
A green light
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Who wrote the three laws of robotics used in The Day the Earth Stood Still?
Isaac Asimov
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The Day the Earth Stood Still was originally supposed to be a _____ movie. Hint: These movies usually were paired with another in screening
B-movie
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Who wrote the screenplay for The Day the Earth Stood Still?
Cyril Hume
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Though the original budget for The Day the Earth Stood Still was 1 million dollars, the budget ended up being ____ dollars
1.9 million
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What year did The Day the Earth Stood Still debut?
1956
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What year was The Day the Earth Stood Still added to the National Film Registry?
2013
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What country demanded that the monster in The Day the Earth Stood Still be censored?
Australia
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What country outright banned The Day the Earth Stood Still for over a decade?
Spain
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To which play does Forbidden Planet bear a striking resemblance to?
The Tempest by Shakespeare
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Which studio loaned their chief animator for The Day the Earth Stood Still?
Walt Disney Productions
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What was the name of the chief animator loaned for The Day the Earth Stood Still?
Joshua Meador
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When was Tron released?
July 9, 1982
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what was the movie Tron a pioneer in?
the first film to use computer imagery to create a three-dimensional world
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Tron's pioneering of CGI led to the creation of jurassic park and?
toy story
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what allowed Wendy Carlos to become famous?
three Grammy wins for Switched-On Bach (1968)
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who did they put in charge of the music and sound for Tron?
Michael Fremer (b. 1947)
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what was Fremer's first thought of what type of music should be used in Tron?
acoustic
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what did Wendy suggest for the music of Tron?
only an orchestra, but that orchestral and synthesized sounds should be blended within the cyberspace environment since those scenes featured a human within the video graphics
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How many musical cues did Carlos come up with?
over 700
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How many minutes of music did Carlos originally submit for Tron in?
40 minuets of music
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How many minutes of Textuar did Carlos originally submit for Tron in?
15 minutes
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How does Martin Fowler describe Carlos's music?
“an indelible commentary on our likely dystopian future ruled by computers.”
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in “Creation of TRON” at 0:07 what happens to the music?
Downward step, then pitch bend
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what does the circuit board fade into when the movie Tron is 39 seconds in?
fades into city street.
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in “Creation of TRON” at 0:25 what happens to the music?
Presto, ff first 3 notes of “Anthem” theme in wordless choir, followed by diminuendo
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in “Creation of TRON” at 0:29 what happens to the music?
Choir sings “Anthem” theme more quietly and slowly over syncopated background.
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TRON was released only two weeks after...?
Blade Runner
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What type of film was TRON
A Disney Film
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Visually TRON was a combination of...
Live action filming, hand drawn animation, and CGI
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What dies CGI Stand for
Computer Generated Imagery
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TRON was the first film to...
Use CGI to create a 3 dimensional world
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Toy Story was the first...
Entirely CGI Generated film
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What does the name Foley Artists mean
Named after Jack Foley who specialized in replicating the noises of the action on the screen
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What challenges did foley artists face in TRON
Because the light cycles and solar sailers were not “real” objects, but were merely animations, the Foley artists for TRON had no sounds to imitate.
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What was used by the foley artists as the sound for the solar sailers
frost-free refrigerator.
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What Rock band contributed 2 piece's to the TRON soundtrack
Journey
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What was the name of the 2 songs Journey contributed to the TRON soundtrack
"Only Solutions" and "1990's Theme"
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Why was "1990's Theme" ineligible for Oscar Nomination
It was completely instrumental
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What ae the three primary timbres
synthesizer, orchestra, and choir
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In the “Creation of TRON,” the cue opens with a
synthetic and orchestral mixture
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What visual imagery occurs as Creation of TRON ends
Circuit boards cross-fade into city street.

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