The Decline of Cinema
The Rise of Abel Gance
Directors
Films of the early war
Film Industry of France
100

Wrote from new york asking his new production head what to do and not to do to maintain the company's position

What is Gaumont

100

Film known as Gance's "masterpiece"  

La Roue 

100

This American director found huge success in France with his move The Cheat (1915) known in French as forfaiture

Cecil B. De Mille

100

Gance's film that was widely crtiqued by other titans of the industry such as claire and Abel 

What is La Roue 

100

This country was the most significant foreign market for France's film industry that relied heavily on exports.

The United States

200

Edison created this to monopolize on on all motion pictures production and distribution in the united states 

What is the M.P.P.C. ( motion pictures patents company) 

200

name of what Gance and post-war newcomers in filmmaking that replaced pre-war important figures in French Cinema were called

What is "impressionists"?

200

One of the most ambitious and successful of the impressionist film movement, this filmmaker directed notable works such as J'Accuse (I Accuse 1919) and La Roue (The Wheel 1922)

Abel Gance

200

This famous actress starred in La Reine Elisabeth 

Sarah Bernhardt 

200

This is one style/genre of film that was well received on both sides of the Atlantic

Either Comedies or Melies-style trick films

300

The two major powers of french cinema at this time 

Pathe and Gaumont 

300

A recurrent motif in his films 

What is Unification of a divided group, country or world by charismatic leader?

300

This French director made films at the Gaumont Company's studio in Nice, France until his death in 1925

Louis Feuillade

300

Gance was one of the first frenchman to see this film by D.W. Griffith in London

What is "The Birth of a Nation"?

300

The state where the Melies Manufacturing Company owned a ranch shooting primarily Western films.

Texas

400

The french film market was already at a disadvantage before the war but this made it even worse  

What is still remarkably rural compared to other western nations 

400

Company engaged him to make a film of jealousy, hypnotism, a major earthquake, a return from the dead and a case of total madness called

What is "Un Drame au chateau D'Acre" or Drama at the Acre Chateau ?

400

This French filmmaker and critic was at the center of the alternative film culture of the 1920's, He was also noted as the person to coin the term "photogenie" although he personally took no credit for the word.

Louis Delluc

400

This film was this filmmakersmost conventional and "safe" silent works

What is "Napoleon"?

400

French producers pioneered this genre with the help of Joe Hammon and "Bronco Billy" Anderson

Western films

500

In the American market longer films were a hit compared to the french creating the seed capital for what is now 

What is paramount pictures 

500

Gance learned this from being one of the first to watch W.D. Griffith's birth of a nation 

What is the understanding of how editing can seamlessly join together neighboring spaces and actions 

500

The pillow fight scene in "Napoleon" impressed this young man to partly recreate it in his own "Zero de Conduite" six years later.

Who is Jean Vigo? 

500

These films all pose the same fundemental problem to historians: we can never see them in versions which even approach their original form and scope 

"J'Accuse", "La Roue", "Napoleon vu par Abel Gance"

500

The Edison trust benefitted this French producer more than any other within the Motion Picture Patents Company (MPPC)

Pathe

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