Flashback: A Brief History of Film Quiz | Four Week Quiz A

Louis Giannetti
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Flashback: A Brief History of Film Quiz | Four Week Quiz A

Louis Giannetti
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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. 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) John Ford.
(b) Max von Manderling.
(c) Frank Capra.
(d) Ernst Lubitsch.

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

3. Through what did Jean Louis Meissonier project Muybridge's work?
(a) Rear projector.
(b) Zoetrope.
(c) Rotoscope.
(d) Glass lantern.

4. What did Griffith as a director discover that elevated films from being more than technical achievements?
(a) Special effects and lighting.
(b) Cinematography.
(c) Talented actors.
(d) Prohibition forced people into the theaters.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. With what film technique did European filmmakers begin experimenting?

2. What aspect of the newly-heard dialogue in the Golden Age made audiences uneasy?

3. What animal did Eadward Muybridge photograph?

4. Filmmaker Jean Renoir was the son of what influential artist?

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

(see the answer key)

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