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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what genre did RKO specialize during the Golden Age?
(a) Action.
(b) Thrillers.
(c) Musicals.
(d) Comedies.

2. Upon whose model of mass production did the Hollywood studio system manufacture films in the Golden Age?
(a) Eli Whitney.
(b) Thomas Edison.
(c) Orson Welles.
(d) F.W. Murnau.

3. In what year did Edison help to open a Kinetoscope parlor?
(a) 1894.
(b) 1911.
(c) 1901.
(d) 1899.

4. What was created in order to satisfy the demands of the Catholic Church (among others) in the 1930s?
(a) MPAA.
(b) Decency Council.
(c) Hayes Code.
(d) Production Code.

5. Which company became renowned for their animation in the early years of World War II?
(a) MGM.
(b) RKO.
(c) Disney.
(d) Warner Bros.

Short Answer Questions

1. What visual effect did Abel Gance develop?

2. Which director became renowned for his use of long takes to evoke a darker mood?

3. What percentage of the American film industry's gross profits came from Great Britain in the early years of the industry?

4. Through what did Jean Louis Meissonier project Muybridge's work?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. In the early days of the film industry, how did Griffith and others begin making their films more appealing to widespread audiences?

2. How did the Film D'Art come to be?

3. Discuss the innovative techniques developed by Alfred Hitchcock, Jean Cocteau, and Jean Renoir.

4. Who were some of the great entertainers that emerged from the talkies in the early years of the film industry that helped revitalize the audience's flagging interest and why?

5. How did Hollywood join the war effort in the forties?

6. What were popular themes in early German films?

7. Who were some of the great directors and their innovative storytelling techniques from Hollywood in the 1940s?

8. Who was David Wark Griffith?

9. Why did so many artists leave Europe in the thirties and how did this effect the film industry?

10. Discuss the financial status of American films and how this led to the rise of the studios during the early years of Hollywood's Golden Age of the Studio.

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