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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. 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) The films became morality tales.
(c) Violence was removed.
(d) Gangster films were banned.

2. 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.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What aspect of the newly-heard dialogue in the Golden Age made audiences uneasy?

2. In 1947, what did the House of Un-American Activities Committee began to investigate?

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

4. In what genre did RKO specialize during the Golden Age?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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.

2. How did the House of Un-American Activities Committee bring Hollywood's booming economy and artistic success to a screeching halt in the late forties?

3. What were popular themes in early German films?

4. How did the advent of "talkies" change both technical and acting aspects of film?

5. 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?

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

7. How did the position of film producer become part of the filmmaking process?

8. What were some of the themes explored in both French and Spanish films?

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

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

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