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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Charlie Chaplin's film persona?

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

3. Which director, during America in the 1940s, became renowned for film adaptations of literature?

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

5. Which of the following was not one of the main focuses of the film-making committees in the Golden Age of the Studio?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the differing situations in both Europe and America in the thirties ultimately influence the film industry?

2. Who was David Wark Griffith?

3. How did the Production Code come into existence and what were some of the effects it had on films?

4. Describe the film industry in the USSR after the first World War.

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

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

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

8. 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?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the rise of Latin American and Irish cinema in the last years of the twentieth century and the first years of the new millennium.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the effects of television on the film industry.

Essay Topic 3

How did films meld both science and creativity together? In what ways was this the overall goal of the Film D'Art? What does this suggest about the technological advances in Hollywood throughout film's history?

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