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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. From what year was a diary entry discovered as having discussed the beginnings of projections?

3. Which artist pushed the boundaries on sex and violence on film?

4. What were the only restrictions placed on directors in the 1920s?

5. During the Golden Age, what now-famous aspects of films came from artists such as Busby Berkeley and Fred Astaire?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the Film D'Art come to be?

2. How did the Production Code come into existence and what were some of the effects it had on films?

3. Who was David Wark Griffith?

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

5. How did the position of film producer become part of the filmmaking process?

6. How did the House of Un-American Activities Committee bring Hollywood's booming economy and artistic success to a screeching halt in the late forties?

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

8. Discuss the financial status of American films and how this led to the rise of the studios during the early years of Hollywood's Golden Age of the Studio.

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

10. What were popular themes in early German films?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How did Europe's film industries recover from World War II? How were their recoveries helped or hampered by the Soviet Union? In what ways were these recoveries indicative of the culture of that country?

Essay Topic 2

How did cinema both aid and depict the struggles for equal rights in America?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the different European film movements and effects on the industries of different countries.

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