Gear and Equipment
This key piece of equipment holds up grip and electric gear.
What is a Century stand?
The older alternative to LED lights, which covers a wider swath of the light spectrum.
What is tungsten?
This murderer helped invent the moving image through his work photographing horses.
This period of Hollywood filmmaking from the sound era through the mid-'60s was characterized by long contracts for actors and directors and assembly line-style production practices.
What is the "Studio System?"
These luxurious theaters came about as feature films began increasing in popularity.
What are Picture Palaces?
This word is called when carrying unwieldy objects across a set to alert others of the potential obstacle.
What is "points?"
The currently popular style of lighting characterized by flat, bright, even light.
What is "Netflix lighting?"
This Indigenous filmmaker went on from his breakout Sundance hit to direct most of "Dark Winds"
Who is Chris Eyre?
The collective name for the studios that held large theater chains during the Golden Age of Hollywood.
What are the "Big Five?"
What are Nickelodeons?
These words are called before turning on or off a light on set to protect others in the environment.
What are "striking" and "saving?"
What Kelvins measure in a filmmaking context.
What is color temperature?
This silent film director was associated with the early impulse towards fantasy and narrative storytelling in film—and made the world's first horror movie.
Who is Georges Meliès?
The collective name for the studios that had significant production output, but owned few or no theater chains.
What are the "Little 3?"
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What are the "mini-majors?"
This toy was a precursor to film technology and featured a spinning cage with intermittent splits revealing a strip of images.
What is a Zoetrope?
This part of a camera is extremely sensitive to light and therefore must remain covered for its protection.
What is a sensor?
The name/title of the person responsible for designing lighting and running the Electric department on a film set.
What is a gaffer?
These silent film directors were associated with early documentary work and helped invent the film camera.
Who were the Lumiere Brothers?
This term refers to the organizational structure studios engaged in by buying up soundstages and theater chains.
What is vertical integration?
The nickname for the world's first soundstage, built in New Jersey and known for its odd shape and stuffy interior.
What is the Black Maria?
This nickname refers to the part of a stand that must be tightened to lock in its position.
What are "knuckles?"
The kind of yellow light used in old streetlights and noted for occupying an extremely small and precise fraction of the light spectrum.
What is sodium vapor?
This Golden Age era director was famed for complex musical numbers that used dancers' bodies to create abstract geometric shapes.
Who is Busby Berkeley?
This kind of law was enforced by the Supreme Court to make studios sell off their theater chains in 1948.
What is "antitrust?"
This early device for film exhibition allowed one viewer at a time to watch short films through a peephole.
What is a kinetoscope?