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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Flashback: A Brief History of Film Chapters 9-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From what entertainment aspect did Orson Welles tap in order to innovate the ways films were made?
(a) Music.
(b) Sound design.
(c) Theater.
(d) Dance companies.

2. Which of the following was not one of the experiments conducted by film studios in the 1950s in order to change the size of their screens?
(a) Cinerama.
(b) Rotoscope.
(c) CinemaScope.
(d) 3D.

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

4. By what year did "talkies" take over Hollywood?
(a) 1932.
(b) 1930.
(c) 1927.
(d) 1929.

5. As the studios bowed to pressure from outside groups during the Golden Age, what was one of the effects seen on the gangster movies?
(a) Women were not allowed behind the camera.
(b) Gangster films were banned.
(c) The films became morality tales.
(d) Violence was removed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Meissonier's conversion of Muybridge's photographs create?

2. What was one of the biggest threats to the film industry in the 1930s?

3. What event in the sixties shifted the American film industry's focus?

4. Which of of the following was not one of the associate companies of the commercial conglomerates that helped keep the American film industry from floundering in the sixties?

5. What visual effect did Abel Gance develop?

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