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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 sort of documentaries dominated the filmmaking business in America in the 1940s?
2. What sort of films did Jean Cocteau create in France in the 1930s?
3. What was one reason comedy shorts became so popular in the 1920s?
4. For what company did Griffith work?
5. What was Charlie Chaplin's film persona?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did the advent of "talkies" change both technical and acting aspects of film?
2. Aside from the Kinetoscope, what were some early advances in technology that led to the creation of the moving picture?
3. How did the differing situations in both Europe and America in the thirties ultimately influence the film industry?
4. How did studios cater to the audience's wishes in the Golden Age of the Studio.
5. Who were some of the popular stars from the 1920s and of what did their acts consist?
6. Who were some of the great directors and their innovative storytelling techniques from Hollywood in the 1940s?
7. 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?
8. How did the position of film producer become part of the filmmaking process?
9. How did the film industry begin to suffer after the advent of talkies?
10. Describe the film industry in the USSR after the first World War.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the effects of television on the film industry.
Essay Topic 2
How did the social revolution of the sixties change the American film industry?
Essay Topic 3
How did the politics of the Third World countries try to prevent the film industries from growing? Discuss the difficulties and dangers the filmmakers would encounter, as well as the issues they had with marketing the film to an international audience.
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