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100
This device was made by Eaward Muybridge using photographs from an experiment commissioned by Leland Stanford
What is the Zoopraxiscope?
100
This inventor dominated the early film industry with his use of the United States Patent Office.
Who is Thomas Edison?
100
This type of shot gives the viewer an idea of where a particular scene is taking place.
What is an establishing shot?
100
This film is the first significant sound film starring Broadway star Al Jolson.
What is the The Jazz Singer?
100
(Edison, Biograph, Vitagraph, Essanay, Selig, Lubin, Kalem, Star Film Company, American Pathé), the leading film distributor (George Kleine) and the biggest supplier of raw film stock, Eastman Kodak formed this organization.
What is the Motion Picture Patents Company? (The Trust)
200
Thomas Edison created this single person viewing machine
What is the Kinetoscope?
200
This person is noted as the first movie star after being billed in some Biograph films.
Who is Florence Lawrence?
200
This filming technique prevents viewer disorientation during conversations between two people.
What is the 180 degree rule?
200
This film is one of the earliest westerns and includes one of the first known close-ups.
What is The Great Train Robbery?
200
This step in the process of vertical integration involves marketing, making copies of films and supplying them to theaters.
What is Distribution?
300
This type of lens makes images that may be far away from each other appear relatively close.
What is a telephoto lens?
300
A wild night out resulted in the end of this comedian's career and a public relations nightmare for the film industry.
Who is Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle?
300
This filmmaking approach utilizes long shots, lengthy takes, a avoids using distorting techniques.
What is realism?
300
George Melies directed this film that used a stationary camera and special effects.
What is A Trip to the Moon (Voyage dans La Lune)?
300
This office was formed in the early 1930's after years of issues surrounding film censorship.
What is the Production Code Administration?
400
This three color subtractive process involves using cyan, magenta, and yellow filters on three separate film strips.
What is technicolor?
400
This former Postmaster General was selected to run the film industry's lobbying office.
Who is Will H. Hays?
400
This technique involves having the focus shift to different planes within the image. The foreground maybe sharp and then suddenly something in the back is in focus.
What is rack focusing?
400
This films witty humor and subject matter is a perfect example of pre-code film and the screwball comedy.
What is Trouble In Paradise?
400
This policy forces theaters to purchase or rent films in large amounts rather than one at a time.
What is block booking?
500
While the Warner Bros. used a sound on film device called Vitaphone this type of sound technology became the industry standard.
What is optical sound?
500
This person had the backing of the nation's most powerful newspaper magnate which allowed her access to stars private lives.
Who is Louella Parsons?
500
This french term has two meanings in film but each involves the same concept.
What is Montage?
500
This film was the first blockbuster film and one of the early multiple reel films.
What is The Birth of A Nation?
500
This court case ruled that films were not protected under the first amendment.
What is Mutual vs. The Industrial Commission of Ohio (1915)
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