This began with the total mobilization of able bodied Frenchmen to fight.
What is the French Cinema Crisis?
100
This film would prove to be an enormous hit in the American market, providing the seed capital for what would later become Paramount Pictures.
What is La Reine Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth)?
100
Headed by George Méliès brother, Gaston, this was the American affiliate of The Star Film Company.
What is The Méliès Manufacturing Company?
100
Louis Delluc became editor in chief of this magazine, a weekly cinema publication, in 1917 after the war forced his previous one to cease publication.
What is Le Film?
100
Sometimes translated as "Film Society," this phrase meant more than the rather passive, defensive connotations of the translation which ill suited the activist, cinema consumers' rights orientation of the French organizations.
What is Ciné-club?
200
Plagued with ill health his whole life, this famous director was exempt from fighting during The Great War.
Who is Abel Gance?
200
This feature incorporated new lighting techniques that influenced a new style of filming. Critiqued as proof of American film making becoming more advanced than that of French film producers.
What is The Cheat.
200
The Melies subsidiary moved here for a more authentic look in their American Based films.
Where is San Antonio, Texas?
200
Taking advantage of the personnel shortage caused by the Great War, this man started his career with the Film D'art company.
Who is Abel Gance?
200
A description of actors and scenes that critique them for their beauty rather than their talent.
What is photogenie?
300
During the Great War, the American market was able to create more elaborate features because of this.
What is more investment in production?
400
This was established by Edison and later declared illegal by the supreme court as an attempt of vertical monopolization of the American film industry.
What is the Motion Picture Patents Company?
500
This shift in film added to the decline of independent circuits and helped the creation of Cinemas.