Classical Hollywood
Important dates
Abbreviations
Cinematography Part 1
Editing
100
Large elgant places to see film in the early days of film and film making. There is still one located close to here in St.Louis.
What are movie palaces?
100
This year is the year that the Classical Hollywood studio system came to an end and had to give up the theaters.
What is 1948?
100
SAG.
What is the Screen Actors Guild?
100
The camera is positioned on the ground tilting upwards.
What is Low Angle?
100
The selection and combining of shots into sequences.
What is an edit?
200
This style of film making was used primarily in the classical Hollywood System and is used in most Big Budget film today.
What is Narrative?
200
"The Golden Age of Hollywood".
What is the 1930s.
200
MPPC.
What is the Motion Picture Production Code?
200
The subject in the front of the camera is in focus while the background is out of focus.
What is shallow focus?
200
He is generally thought/ credited to be the American filmmaker who first put film editing to use.
Who is Edwin S. Porter.
300
The Hero of the story.
What is the protagonist?
300
The big five began in this era.
What is 1920's?
300
MPPDA
What is the The Motion Pictures Producers and Distributors Association.
300
Switching focus between two or more objects.
What is racking focus?
300
The purpose of this editing style is to smooth over the inherent discontinuity of the editing process and to establish a logical coherence between shots.
What is continuity editing?
400
The top of the early studio ladder. This person made all the decisions.
What is the banker? Double Jeopardy Where was this person located?
400
The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) negotiated the first contracts that granted performers-actors (including singers, announcers, stunt men, and airplane pilots) residuals paid by studios for feature films sold to television in this year?
What is 1952.
400
MPAA.
What is the Motion Picture Association of America?
400
The camera is positioned above pointed downward.
What is a High Angle?
400
Cut in film editing in which two sequential shots of the same subject are taken from camera positions that vary only slightly.
What is a Jump cut?
500
"Study of film as visual and iconic discourse as opposed to narrative text, dealing with the principles of framing, editing, and mise-en-scene understood as critical tools and as a historical evolution from the silent days to Godard and Bergman."
What is film form?
500
Laemmle introduced the star system, causing the rise of the American movie star phenomenon in this era.
What is the 1910s?
500
NC-17
What is No One Admitted Under 17?
500
A long shot that takes in all the action in a given scene.
What is the master shot?
500
Having two or more possible meanings/ ending. This is frequent in horror film.
What are ambiguous endings?
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