World History
A filmmaking style characterized by location shooting, no props, no superficial action, and lack of credit to the director.
What is Dogme 95?
The technique that is used to ensure the audience understands what a character is looking at.
What is Eyeline Match?
Screens used in silent films that might contain dialogue, narration, etc.
What are inter-titles?
Aside from Edison, these people were working on a camera and projector.
Who are the Lumière brothers?
Touted as a film that pioneered many effects and editing styles, released in 1915.
What is The Birth of a Nation?
Swedish alternative to the Classical Hollywood Narrative Style. Categorized by on-location shooting, use of deep focus, and complex lighting.
What is Swedish Realist Cinema?
A way of processing film to be in color. Involved three different film strips that had to be put together to form one complete colored image.
What is Technicolor?
These Hollywood styles were influenced by German Expressionism.
What are horror and film noir?
The studio founded by (among others) Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and William S. Hart in 1919
What is United Artists?
The man who made the Man With the Movie Camera.
Who is Dziga Vertov?
The vehicle through which the Soviet government spread information in the form of speakers, theatrical performances, and film screenings.
What are Agit-trains?
This unexpected hit first premiered on ABC and became the 10th most watched TV screening.
What is Brian’s Song?
A circular machine with openings on the sides, which can be used to view the images contained within. Spinning it gives the illusion of movement of the image.
What is a Zoetrope?
The company besides AT&T that was trying to get sound on film.
What is the Radio Corporation of America?
A group that all technological change should be used to improve humanity, and that the advent of film was hindering the education and religious pursuits of the youth.
Who are the Progressives?
The tool the Indian government used to showcase high quality Indian art films.
What is the national TV channel?
This method of projecting film melds images from 3 synced projectors on a curved screen.
What is Cinerama?
This term is used to describe the kind of filmmaking George Méliès did.
What is The Cinema of Attractions?
The founder of the Famous Players-Lasker Corporation
Who is Adolph Zukor?
French Impressionist film that features ants crawling up someone’s arm, confusing imagery, and a woman’s eye literally being cut open.
What is Un Chien Andalou (1928)?
Film created by French cubist Fernand Lèger, depicting rhythm and movements of objects made to move mechanically.
What is Le Ballet Mechanique (1924)?
This method of showing TV broadcasts at theaters was invented by Paramount in 1943.
What is the Intermediate Film Method?
The term for the strip of sound on the side of the image on a piece of motion picture film.
What is an Optical Track?
This helped craftspeople gain bargaining power in the film industry because producers were undervaluing their labor, which was often done in difficult working conditions.
What is Unionization?
A German genre of film that was particularly popular in the 1950s. Characterized by serene landscapes, greenery, and nostalgia for Germany before war.
What is the Heimatfilm (Homeland film)?