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

2. With what film technique did European filmmakers begin experimenting?
(a) Cinematography.
(b) Special effects.
(c) Sound.
(d) Editing.

3. What event in America caused studios to realize that the movie-going public needed entertainment over grim realism?
(a) World War I.
(b) Prohibition.
(c) World War II.
(d) The Great Depression.

4. What influenced the audience's desire for music and voices to be added to films?
(a) Radio.
(b) Stage.
(c) Charlie Chaplin's singing voice.
(d) The terrible quality of the live music provided for the film.

5. Which of the following was not one of the the Big Five studios in the Golden Age of the Studio?
(a) Warner Bros.
(b) RKO.
(c) Paramount.
(d) Universal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Harry Langdon's film persona?

2. In what year did Edison help to open a Kinetoscope parlor?

3. Why did the independent filmmakers head for California while the Patent Company existed?

4. What did Griffith as a director discover that elevated films from being more than technical achievements?

5. Which of the following words can be used to describe the films that were produced during the early years of the Golden Age?

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