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Thomas Edison created a studio to shoot his earliest films. It was called |
Black Maria |
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Actualities can be best described as |
snippets of every day life |
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During early film exhibitions, what kind of control did the exhibitors have over films? |
vertical integration |
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Edwin Porter's film Life of an American fireman revolutionized what part of the filmmaking process? |
Editing |
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Nickelodeon's were |
cheap theatres |
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Beginning his career as a magician, which filmmaker was known as the "magician of the cinema" |
Melies |
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In film, close ups are said to have what effect? |
Emotional Dramatic |
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Mis En Scene includes |
Everything but sound |
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What movie was the first ever to be screened at the white house? |
The Birth of a Nation |
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Soviet Montage can be best described as |
juxtaposition of scenes being shot |
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The Kuleshov Effect can be described as |
editing impacting the way you look at a scene |
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How did disillusionment after World War 1 help shape German Expressionist films? |
people went to the movies more
had a distortion of reality |
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Chiaroscuro is a technique used in both German Expressionist painting and films and can be defined |
play between light and shadows |
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Genre can be best described as |
style or category of films |
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How did continuity in scripts streamline the filmmaking process? |
it made it faster for movies to be filmed and edited |
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The big 5 studios practiced vertical integration. This meant films controlled which part of the film making process |
exhibition distribution production |
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How did sound increase the need for censorship |
it became very suggestive |
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Why were camera blimps used? |
to block out the sound from the loud cameras |
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Who established the Hays Office Codes |
The movies |
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How might Mis En Scene contribute to the moral or immoral characteristics of a character |
things could be suggestive |
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How many parts does classic hollywood film structure have? |
3 |
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How do you define a motivated edit |
edit that happens at the most logical point |
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Hollywood films are said to suture the audience into the film, what does that mean? |
get lost in the film |
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INR films often had radically different endings than classic hollywood films. How would you characterize the ending of an INR film? |
had open ended scenes |
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where were the INR films shot? |
on location |
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INR films relied on big name stars to make hollywood style films |
false |
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what characteristics did French New Wave share with Italian Neo Realism? |
showing reality rebels lifes uncertainty |
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How do you define camera pen? |
it's a film maker as an artist showing his own personal style |
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What was the Cahiers Du Cinema? |
film reviewers |
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Why can we describe French New Wave films as being self reflexive? |
FNW filmmakers had an acute awareness of the history of film |
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Why can we call French New Wave Film makers rebels? |
focus on urban life, a new younger generation who did not follow the stuffy norms of their parents’ generation. |
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How did New Wave Cinema turn filmmaking into art? |
began designing scratching and painting the film to get the desired effect. |
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Why might we say that New Wave films depicted instability? |
distinctions between reality and an interior state of mind are not clear |
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What characteristic did Cinema Novo share with Italian Neo Realism? |
political activism and did a lot for social and political change |
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Why could we call cinema novo films desperate? |
reflected political, aesthetic, and ethical necessity. |
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What was the relationship between fine artists and experimental film makers? |
they focuse on experimenting with using film to create new ways of seeing cinema and the role around them. |
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Why can we say some experimental film makers were interested in the film strip as a canvas? |
filmmakers focused on shapes, light, colors, and arrangements to create new ways of seeing.
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How did small cameras change the documentary film making? |
people could be flies on the wall |
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What as the purpose of "uncontrolled cinema" |
to capture everything as it unfolds |
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Why did the hollywood studios start taking risks on low budget films? |
people had little expectation |
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How would you define a youth pic? |
critique of old cultural norms, and it was meant to engage young audiences |
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How did films like the graduate and the Easy Rider change movie theatre habits? |
it became more of a place to have fun |
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What role did music play in films like graduate and easy rider |
made the sound-track album a source of profit.
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Why was it so shocking that the film Midnight Cowboy won an Academy Award for best picture? |
It was X-rated |
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How do you define tent pole films |
entertainment journalists are able to report on big-budget tent pole movies in production or in the planning stages to generate interest and gossip for a film |