New Media Culture- A Brief History of Film Flashcards

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Thomas Edison develops the first motion picture camera

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1888

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Birth of a Nation is the first feature film in?

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1915

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The Jazz Singer is the first “Talkie”

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1927

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Peak of North American Box Office attendance- 90 million/week.

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1946

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5
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Television competes, major studios have to divest their theatre chains in?

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1948

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movie ratings are introduced in?

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1968

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Jaws becomes the first modern blockbuster in?

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1975

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Star Wars revolutionizes special effects and film merchandizing in?

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1977

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Toy Story released, first major 100% Computer Animated feature film in?

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1995

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DVDs were introduced in?

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1997

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11
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Netflix streams films over Internet in?

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2007

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The first partially successful photograph of a camera image was made in? And by whom

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1816 approx by Joseph Niépce

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The ______________ Method was developed in 1836 was the first practical photography method.

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Daguerreotype

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the Kinetograph/Kinetoscope was First described in conceptual terms by who and in what year?

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Thomas Edison, 1888

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The first U.S. copyright for an identifiable motion picture was given to Edison for? And when?

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Fred Ott’s Sneeze in 1894

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16
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Why did Edison abandon film in 1914?

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a fire destroyed his research and development labs

17
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the cinematograph was made by which 2 french siblings and in what year?

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August and Louis Lumière in 1894

18
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When did the Lumière brothers start making films?

19
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The cinématographe itself was patented on?

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13 February, 1895

20
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on March 19, 1895, what was the first footage filmed?

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Workers leaving the Lumière factory

21
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The First Horror Film was

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“The devil’s castle” by Georges Méliès in 1896

22
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Méliès also produced the first science fiction movie, what was it called amd when was it made?

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Le Voyage dans la lune (Voyage to the Moon) in 1902

23
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The (American) Golden Age of Silent film ran from?

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1903- 1927

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The First Major Movie Star of North American cinema was?

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Canadian, Mary Pickford (aka Gladys Marie Smith)

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The Movie Industry restarted itself in Hollywood because?
it was far away from Edison and his men, and because it was close to the border so they could escape to Mexico if needed
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The First Feature Film was?
D.W Griffith’s Birth of a Nation in 1915
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Birth of a Nation was also important because it featured the first:
``` Outdoor battle scenes.  Close-ups  Cuts between simultaneous sequences of action ```
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Many states banned the film because?
for fear it would incite violence, and it was one of the first cases of American film censorship
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was established when and what did it do?
1930 and forbade scenes that protrayed “crime, wrongdoing, evil or sin” in a positive light
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in the post-War years, only the United States was really in a position to produce films at a large scale anymore because of what event?
WWII, everyone else was decimated by the war (England, France, Brazil, Japan, China and India)
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A “B Movie” is what? And where did the term come from?
the old theatre days when the theatres were always rotating two films- An “A Movie” and “B Movie”. The “A Movie” would be the one with the big stars and production values. The “B Movie” would be a cheap genre film (mystery, suspense, romance, comedy, action, Western, etc) with semi-unknown stars and a quality level much lower than that of the “A Movie”.
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In 1946, what happened in America (Film wise)
American movie-going reaching a peak of 90 million audience members a week
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What did The Great Depression of the 1930’s do to most of the smaller movie producers and over 5000 independent movie theatres?
Killed them off
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Many of them were bought by the Big Five which are:
``` Paramount  Loews/MGM  Warner Brothers  20th Century Fox  RKO ```