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

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

3. Which of the following words can be used to describe the films that were produced during the early years of the Golden Age?
(a) Expressive.
(b) Socially aware.
(c) Experimental.
(d) Formulaic.

4. In what decade were silent films perfected?
(a) 1920s.
(b) 1930s.
(c) 1890s.
(d) 1910s.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did the formation of the Patent Company force theaters showing their films to do?

3. What technological breakthrough hurt the film industry in America?

4. What were the only restrictions placed on directors in the 1920s?

5. What fear arose about an audience's viewing experience as films grew longer?

Short Essay Questions

1. Aside from the Kinetoscope, what were some early advances in technology that led to the creation of the moving picture?

2. How did the governor of California's commission for horse photography develop into Meissonier's project in creating the illusion of moving pictures?

3. What were popular themes in early German films?

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

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

6. How did the film industry begin to suffer after the advent of talkies?

7. What led to the mass migration of film production from New York and New Jersey to California?

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

9. 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?

10. Who was David Wark Griffith?

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