Technology & Innovation
An apparatus which represented the first major attempt to change the proportions of the film image.
What is Lumiere's Cinematograph?
In the Charity Bizarre fire, who did the victims mostly consist of?
What is the haute bourgeoise/ladies & gentlemen of the upper class?
In 1904, Where did Madame Léon Richebé and her family opened the Populaire Cinéma.
What is the old waterfront district of Marseille?
The phrase “film d’art” had multiple meanings, as it was _____.
What is both a style of film and also the name of a production company?
Alice Guy and_______ where directors and also some of the earliest French Producers.
Who was Ferdinand Zecca?
A kind of film version of the Diorama devoted to sea voyages.
What is Mareorama?
What company did Leon Gaumont buy out for 200,000 francs?
What is the Comptoir Général de Photographie?
During this prosperous time, the high watermark of the fairground cinema was estimated to reach its peak in what year?
What is 1907?
The acting in this style of film had a very distinct nature compared to previous films.
What is it was understated and restrained?
Who was one of the most significant figures in French cinema who write their own autobiography?
Who was Alice Guy?
Apparatus fitted with ten seventy millimeter synchronized projectors throwing images onto a circular screen surrounding the audience, designed to give simulated hot-air balloon voyages.
What is a Balloon-Cineorama?
How much did it cost to be admitted to the Populaire Cinema?
What is three sous?
This small provincial capital near the Spanish border established its first permanent cinema in 1911.
What is Perpignan?
What were the sets like in films d’art?
What are they were theatrical and complex with multiple dimensions, entrances, and exits?
This individual strongly disliked how traveling cinema operators were cheapening the artform.
Who was Pathé?
Alternative means of selling cinema entertainment to the French public.
What is a Fixed film exhibition in cities and towns?
How much did an assistant at the Gaumont company make a week?
What is 100 francs?
Seventy to eighty percent of who’s early films were irretrievably lost due to the Great War?
What is Léonce Perret?
His writer/director was crucial in the development of the art series, a sub-genre of films d’art.
Who was Louis Feuillade?
His films were among the first in France to consistently employ the so called American shot .
Who was Léonce Perret?
Due to Grimoin-Samson's projector generated to much of this, the attraction was closed as unsafe by Paris police.
What is heat?
Who was one of the best paid actors in the early 20th century who starred in 582 comic films?
What is Max Linder (born Gabriel Leuville)?
The first decade of the 1900s was a period of highly uneven economic development. How was this bad for film producers and when did it stabilize?
What is :
Film producers had to cut back on film production.
Could not replenish horribly degraded film.
Stabilized in 1909.
Describe the “American shot”.
What is a shot where the actor is not in a full body shot, usually cut off somewhere between the ankles and the chest?
He was an undisputed master in the areas of scientific cinema and medical film. He also had the distinction of being one of the handful of producers overseen by Ferdinand Zecca.
Who is Doctor Jean Comandon?