Quotes
Who said "Get the picture out of the box"?
Antoine Lumiére to his sons after seeing Thomas Edison's Kinetoscope.
Who was the first director?
Alice Guy-Blaché
What is block booking?
When independent films were paired with unpopular studio films.
Who was Jack Johnson
An African American heavyweight boxing champion. His win over James Jeffries, a white man, sparked riots and a federal ban on the interstate sale of all boxing films.
What country is the world's largest producer of films?
India. The country overtook the US and Europe in the 1970s.
"This sort of treatment can go on in Russia, but it can't go in this country," was said in response to what?
The mayor of NYC revoking the licenses of 540 motion picture halls.
What was the name of the first fictional film?
The Cabbage Fairy
What is blacklisting?
Who was Eadweard Muybridge?
He was a photographer whom California Governor Stanford hired to settle a bet about how horses run.
Who said, "It is like writing history with lightning. And my only regret is that it is all so terribly true"?
President Woodrow Wilson in response to seeing Birth of A Nation.
Name two of the six genres of the Golden Age.
Comedies, musicals, cartoons, horror films, gangster films, westerns.
What film did Frank Capra create for the War Department, and what was its message?
Why We Fight. It served as an alternative to morale building lectures by army officers and highlighted American ideals to promote the effect to fight the Nazis.
Who was Sergei Eisenstein?
He directed Battleship Potemkin, an early episode about the Russian Revolution.
Why did many people leave Disney studios to venture out on their own?
Refusal by the studio to increase recognition or salaries for animators besides Walt Disney.
Who said, "Whoever controls the motion picture industry controls the most powerful medium of influence over the people"?
Thomas Edison
By the early 1930s, how often were most Americans going out to the movie theater?
Once a week.
What did United States v Motion Pictures Patents Company decided?
That the MPPC or the Edison Trust held an illegal monopoly over the film industry.
Who is most famous for their film The Immigrant?
Charlie Chaplin
What technological advancement has forced movie producers to consider international audiences?
Streaming Platforms.
Who said, "It changed how movies were made, of course, but more importantly, it changed what movies were"?
Film historian Scott Eyman.
What is Expressionism?
Created by German artists after WWI, it began pursuing darker topics of crime, madness, and betrayal. It featured bizarre jarring angles and painted shadows that contradicted the film's lighting.
What did United States v. Paramount decide?
It accused 7 companies of controlling the entire film industry. When settled, it limited the use of block booking.
Who was Lois Weber?
She was an early American director, known for her movies Hypocrites and A Heroine of '76.
What film marked the transition away from animated models to full digital special effects?
Jurassic Park