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

2. What sort of performers were ideal candidates for comedy shorts in the 1920s?
(a) Vaudeville.
(b) Singers.
(c) Dancers.
(d) Shakespearean.

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

4. What comedy team became popular (and necessary) during the studio's push for pure entertainment in the earlier decades of the Golden Age?
(a) Laurel and Hardy.
(b) Abbott and Costello.
(c) Marx Brothers.
(d) Wilber and Woolsley.

5. What early realization helped films develop both special effects and story lines?
(a) Cameras could be operated by one man.
(b) Filming the weather was not intriguing enough for audiences.
(c) The films should be longer.
(d) Reels could be cut together.

Short Answer Questions

1. What group was formed in 1908 with the intention to further develop the Kinetoscope technology?

2. What visual effect did Abel Gance develop?

3. What was Charlie Chaplin's film persona?

4. What sort of documentaries dominated the filmmaking business in America in the 1940s?

5. What style of art influenced Alfred Hitchcock the most, particularly in his early work?

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