Thomas Edison
Max Skladanowsky
Lumiere
Muybridge
WKL Dickson
1. Lab assistant who played a critical role in creating some of the first moving
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2. Photgrapher of the West who shot pictures of moving horses
3. America's greatest inventor who tried to gain a monopoly on filmmaking
4. German photographer who showed films publically in 1895.
5. French brothers who showed films to an audience in 1895, an event which is considered to
be the birth of film.
What does not describe the kinetoscope?
Question 2 options:
Developed by Thomas Edison
Viewing of films was through a peephole
Movies created for the kinetoscope tended to be earthy, and were sometimes controversial
Allowed viewing of a film by a small audience
What does not describe the Cinematographe?
Question 3 options:
It was capable of shooting moving pictures
It was capable of developing the film
It was capable of projecting the film
It was heavy and could only shoot indoor scenes
The showings of The Trip to the Moon was accompanied by both music and a narrator.
Question 4 options:
True
False
Musical accompaniment in the early years of the silent era was always well-chosen and
appreciated by audiences and critics.
Question 5 options:
True
False
What does not characterize The Great Train Robbery?
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4
5
2
1
Question 6 options:
D.W. Griffith helped write the script, direct, and played a small role in the film.
It uses both indoor and outdoor scenes.
It incorporates the movement of the camera called a pan
The story is based on true incidents
Small shops converted into movie theaters were called
Question 7 options:
vaudeville theaters
parlors
nickelodeons
movie palaces
Which of the following was a role of music in the early days of silent film.
Question 8 options:
To provide live emotional energy for the story
To cover the sound of the projection
To set appropriate moods for the film
All of the above
What was not an important development in filmmaking during the years 1908 - 1920?
Question 9 options:
Actors became "stars"
Emphasis turned to making one-reel films only
American became the dominant film center in the world
Filmmaking began to move West to Hollywood
Who is considered to be the first great director of film and the creator of the first masterpiece?
Question 10 options:
Edwin Porter
Mack Sennet
DW Griffith
Cecil B deMille
Which of the following films is not by DW Griffith?
Question 11 options:
Fall of the Nation
Intolerance
Birth of a Nation
Broken Blossoms
Musical Developments
Question 12 options:
Wurlitzer
Anthologies
Arrangement
Cue sheet
Adaptation
1. The most prestigious makers of theater organs
2. A guide to a specific film that describes the appropriate musical
moods for each scene.
3. The borrowing of a well-known melody and setting it into a new
musical score.
4. Publications of musical excerpts organized by moods.
5. The borrowing of an entire work, usually from the 19th-century
classics, and placing it into a film score.
Which film score was not created by Joseph Carl Breil?
Question 13 options:
The Assassination of the Duke of Guise
Queen Elizabeth
Intolerance
The Birth of a Nation
Who composed the film score for The Fall of a Nation?
Question 14 options:
Winkler
Saint-Saëns
Breil
Herbert
Who composed the first completely original film score?
Question 15 options:
Wagner
Saint-Saëns
Breil
Herbert
What does not characterize The Birth of a Nation?
Question 17 options:
Masterpiece of filmmaking
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4
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5
Racist content
Historical accuracies
The entire film deals with issues of Reconstructionism
The Birth of a Nation is based on the writings of which novelist?
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