Chapter 2 Quiz Review

History of Motion Pictures

The popularity of imported American films

Which was NOT a significant factor in the expansion of the french film industry in the mid-1900s?

His films reflected the French film industry’s bid for middle-class respectability

The French screen comic Max Linder was important to early film history because…

Alice Guy

Which French director supervised Gaumont’s film production until 1908?

The opening of many permanent movie theaters

In Italy, cinema won respect as a new art form earlier than in other European countries primarily because of…

The neorealist film

Which type of film was NOT characteristic of Italian cinema of the 1910s?

Nordisk

Which European production company specialized in crime thrillers and sensationalistic melodramas?

They were more regularly available than traveling exhibitions

Which of the following is true of nickelodeons that spread in the United States between 1905 and 1907?

Suing them for patent infringement

Since 1897, the Edison company tried to force its competitors out of business by…

Gain a larger share of the U.S. market

In December of 1908, the Edison company and American Mutoscope and Biograph created the Motion Picture Patents Company to…

Carl Laemmle

The first distributor to effectively defy the Motion Picture Patents Company and start his own production firm - the Independent Motion Picture Company - was…

The Motion Picture Patents Company’s rigid release system allowed for only single reels

Multireel films were uncommon in the United States in the nickelodeon era because…

New York and New Jersey

The first American film companies were located in…

Enhance narrative clarity

By the late Nickelodeon era, every aspect of silent film style came to be used to…

They suggested characters’ thoughts more precisely than did gestures

Which of the following is NOT true of the use of expository intertitles in films circa 1914?

A slight readjustment used by the camera operator to keep an actor in the frame when he or she moved about

The term “reframing” refers to…

Amber

In the silent era, what color tint was commonly used to signify an interior space at night?

Breaks down a single space into separate framings - for example, by cutting in closer to the action

In using analytical editing, a filmmaker…

Analytical editing

An “insert” is a specific type of cut used in…

Shot A shows a character looking offscreen; Shot B shows another character looking in the opposite direction at the first

Which shot combination best describes a shot/reverse shot

Pixilation

Which is the earliest animation technique that made use of frame-by-frame animation of objects?

False

True or False…

Most often, U.S. nickelodeons screened films without sound accompaniment.

False

True or False…

By 1910, Denmark was second only to France in the number of films it sent around the world.

True

True or False….

During the U.S. nickelodeon boom, most films shown in nickelodeons came from abroad.

True

True or False…

The Motion Picture Patents Company was an oligopoly because its member firms cooperated to control the U.S. market and block the entry of new companies.

False

True or False…

By 1905, film companies began to give screen credit to actors and exploited their popular actors for publicity.

True

True or False…

In or around 1909, filmmakers began to put the camera slightly closer to the actors so that their facial expressions would be more visible.

True

True or False…

Surviving footage from the earlier known Indian feature film, Raja Harishchandra, reveals that its director understood and employed contemporaneous principles of western filmmaking.