Test 2

Question 1

Gangster Films, Musicals, Screwball Comedy, Newpaper Stories, Horror

Answer 1

New Genres

Question 2

Known for Gangster films (Little Caesar)

Answer 2

Edward G Robinson/Warner bros

Question 3

Responsible for creating the film musical (musical created especially for film)

Answer 3

Ernst Lubitsch

Question 4

Geometric designs, dancing camera, drill Sargent

Answer 4

Busby Berkeley

Question 5

Introduces slow motion into dance musicals, known as “the Dancer”, high class

Answer 5

Fred Astaire

Question 6

They create chaos when placed in situations where they do not belong, A Night at the Opera

Answer 6

Marx Brothers

Question 7

middle class values, always a happy ending, Its a Wonderful Life

Answer 7

Frank Capra

Question 8

Master of the western, master of epic extreme long shot

Answer 8

John Ford

Question 9

Fred Astaire said…..

Answer 9

“either the camera will dance or i will”

Question 10

What age occured between 1930-1948

Answer 10

The Golden Age of Hollywood

Question 11

gangster films, newspaper reporting films, social realism, screwball comedies, westerns, horror, etc

Answer 11

Genres during the Golden Age

Question 12

Worlds first drive in

Answer 12

Camden, NJ 1933

Question 13

1937, first feature length animated film

Answer 13

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Question 14

Chuck Jones, Tex Avery, Friz Freleng, Mel Blanc

Answer 14

Warners Kings of animation

Question 15

greatest year in cinematic history

Answer 15

1939

Question 16

1940s average admission

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35cents, 2/3 audiences went weekly

Question 17

investigates communists in hollywood

Answer 17

1947 house un-american activities committee

Question 18

banned by war department

Answer 18

John Hustons “Let There Be Light”

Question 19

The Maltese Falcon , Casablanca(Quintessential 40s film)

Answer 19

Humphrey Bogart

Question 20

The War of the Worlds radio broadcast

Answer 20

Orson Welles

Question 21

Recognized as being one of the most innovative works in the history of film, attempt to create a new style of film making by studying and combining all the various forms of film making into one

Answer 21

Citizen Kane

Question 22

Cinematographer, deep focus photography

Answer 22

Gregg Toland

Question 23

Dramatic use of light and dark, with midrange grays for drama

Answer 23

Chiaroscuro Lighting

Question 24

foreground, background and everything in between is in sharp focus

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Deep focus photography

Question 25

transitional sequences of rapidly edited images used to show lapse in time or changing events

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montage

Question 26

over a 20 year span, television siphons off 85% of audience

Answer 26

Rise of Television 1950's

Question 27

films that point out the flaws in the social structure, for many years the most prestigious branch of the cinema.

Answer 27

Social Realism

Question 28

Social Realism influenced

Answer 28

Fred Zinnemann, Elia Kazan, Stanley Kramer

Question 29

systematized acting with exercises and methods of analysis, subtext and emotional recall

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Method Acting

Question 30

Marlon Brando, James Dean.... Rebel characters

Answer 30

New Generation of Stars

Question 31

Questions values and conventions of a particular genre, ex. westerns

Answer 31

Revisionist Genre

Question 32

Called himself the "Master of Suspense", no other actor worked from such detailed plans

Answer 32

Alfred Hitchcock

Question 33

Drawings of each shot

Answer 33

Storyboarding

Question 34

European films make inroads into America, university towns

Answer 34

Art house theaters

Question 35

Patented widescreen lens: Cinemascope (1922)

Answer 35

Henri Chretien

Question 36

Last decade of American innocence

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1950's

Question 37

gave rise to "paranoid style" , "The Day the Earth Stood Still"

Answer 37

Red Scare

Question 38

Paramounts wrap-around big screen, 3-cameras 3-projectors (need to be synchronized) ($75,000 to install)

Answer 38

Cinerama

Question 39

William Castle (low-budget B-horror films)

Answer 39

Percepto

Question 40

known for monumental epics, The Ten Commandments (1956) parting of Red Sea with gallons of water

Answer 40

Cecil B DeMille

Question 41

Ben-Hur (1959), won 11 oscars, cost $15million to make most expensive film of the 50's

Answer 41

William Wyler

Question 42

Film Noir, Billy Wilder

Answer 42

Sunset Boulevard (1950)

Question 43

"All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close up."

Answer 43

Sunset Boulevard's most famous line

Question 44

legitimized sci-fi and helped lay the groundwork for the genre and sci-fi that would follow, ex. Star Trek... First big sci-fi movie of its kind- many have imitated its elements, inspired by cold war paranoia

Answer 44

The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

Question 45

Warner bros: voice of bugs bunny, porky pig, daffy duck preformed voices from 1937-1989

Answer 45

Mel Blanc

Question 46

Warner bros: created characters Yosemite Sam, porky pig, daffy duck

Answer 46

Friz Freleng

Question 47

Warner bros: animator, director, responsible for developing the fast-paced tone of the cartoons. The Road runner, wile coyote, pepe le pew, marvin the martian and others

Answer 47

Chuck Jones

Question 48

Pioneered early animated films. First known for elaborate fantasy comic strips, created the first character for film, Gertie the Dinosaur (1914)

Answer 48

Winsor McCay (1867-1934)

Question 49

* Invented the rotoscope (still used today) helps produce realistic animation miniature setbacks on a turntable (3D sets placed behind the animation cells) gave a 3D look to the cartoons * Invented the 'bouncing ball' for sing-alongs * His cartoon series was called "Out of the Inkwell" * Combined live action and animation

Answer 49

Max Fliescher (1919-1942)

Question 50

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) first successful feature length animated film. Academy award winner. Special Oscar

Answer 50

Walt Disney (1922...)