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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During the early days of World War II, why did Britain have trouble maintaining their film industry?
(a) Funding.
(b) Bomb threats.
(c) Denouncement of British films from Hitler.
(d) Immigration.

2. During the Golden Age, what part of the film was frequently lost in favor of the star performer's special skills?
(a) Cinematographer.
(b) Story.
(c) Music.
(d) Lighting.

3. As studios struggled to find the balance between pragmatism and idealism in the early decades of the Golden Age, which of the following people was not one of the great directors to innovate filmmaking in this period?
(a) Max von Manderling.
(b) Frank Capra.
(c) John Ford.
(d) Ernst Lubitsch.

4. When American films began to include sound (particularly dialogue), what sound effect uncomfortably highlighted the violence in most movies?
(a) Machine guns.
(b) Cannons.
(c) Screams.
(d) Stabs.

5. What were the only restrictions placed on directors in the 1920s?
(a) They were not allowed to take a bigger cut of the movie's profits than the actors.
(b) They had to stay within their budget.
(c) They could only use one "star" at a time.
(d) They had to work subliminal advertising into their films.

Short Answer Questions

1. What influenced the audience's desire for music and voices to be added to films?

2. What was one of the biggest threats to the film industry in the 1930s?

3. Which of the following was not one of the main focuses of the film-making committees in the Golden Age of the Studio?

4. What studio did William Fox and Carl Laemmle eventually form?

5. What comedy team became popular (and necessary) during the studio's push for pure entertainment in the earlier decades of the Golden Age?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were popular themes in early German films?

2. How did the governor of California's commission for horse photography develop into Meissonier's project in creating the illusion of moving pictures?

3. Discuss the innovative techniques developed by Alfred Hitchcock, Jean Cocteau, and Jean Renoir.

4. What were some of the themes explored in both French and Spanish films?

5. How did the differing situations in both Europe and America in the thirties ultimately influence the film industry?

6. How did the film industry begin to suffer after the advent of talkies?

7. How did Hollywood join the war effort in the forties?

8. How did studios cater to the audience's wishes in the Golden Age of the Studio.

9. Describe the film industry in the USSR after the first World War.

10. Why did so many artists leave Europe in the thirties and how did this effect the film industry?

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