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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Flashback: A Brief History of Film Chapters 5-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From what year was a diary entry discovered as having discussed the beginnings of projections?
(a) 1532.
(b) 1811.
(c) 1718.
(d) 1666.

2. What was the standard amount of time devoted to creating a picture during David Wark Griffith's development of film?
(a) One month.
(b) One year.
(c) One day.
(d) One week.

3. Which of the following comedians was not one of the silent film stars from the 1920s?
(a) Charlie Chaplin.
(b) Harold Lloyd.
(c) Lou Costello.
(d) Buster Keaton.

4. What was one of the biggest threats to the film industry in the 1930s?
(a) The war.
(b) Filming on location.
(c) Censorship.
(d) Salaries.

5. What editor displayed the emotional impact of crowd scenes on film?
(a) Sergei Einstein.
(b) Lev Kulshov.
(c) Fritz Lang.
(d) F.W. Murnau.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who helped Edison open a Kinetoscope parlor?

2. Which of the following was not one of the Little Three in the Golden Age of the Studio?

3. In what style did the French produce their films?

4. Upon whose model of mass production did the Hollywood studio system manufacture films in the Golden Age?

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

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