He set the industry censorship guidelines that governed the production of the vast majority of United States motion pictures released by major studios from 1930 to 1968.
Who is Will H. Hays?
100
This film is still a requiting tool for the KKK.
What is Birth of a Nation?
100
This light is responsible for casting harsh shadows.
What is the key light?
100
This light removes the Harsh Shadows.
What is the fill light. Back light can also be accepted but it is not the correct answer.
100
He Directed Within Our Gates.
Who is Oscar Micheaux.
200
PG, G, R, NC-17
What are movie ratings?
Daily double.
What era was the missing rating added?
200
Walter Burns is a hard-boiled editor for The Morning Post who learns his ex-wife is about to marry a bland insurance man.
What is His Girl Friday.
200
Once, Twice, Thrice.
What is the rule of threes?
200
Studios invested most of their money in this.
What is Exhibition?
200
an American film director, producer and screenwriter of the classic Hollywood era. He directed His Girl Friday.
Who is Howard Hawks?
300
They were a self-censoring/regulating body for the films produced by Studio members.
What is The MPPDA?
300
Surrealist film that is disjointed, jumping from the initial "once upon a time" to "eight years later" without the events or characters changing very much.
What is Un Chien Andalou?
300
Dont cross this line of your shot will make no sense.
What is the 180 degree line.
300
This type of film was not only about racism, but other social problems too?
What is the problem film/ picture.
300
English comic actor and film director of the silent film era. He became one of the best-known film stars in the world before the end of the First World War.
Who is Charlie Chaplin?
400
They lobbied to promote Hollywood films in the international market.
What is the MPPDA?
400
This film was about pre-civil war America and reconstruction.
What is Birth Of A Nation?
400
The space above an actors head in a frame.
What is head room?
400
This edit begins with a character looking at something off-screen, there will then be a cut to the object or person at which he is looking.
What is an eyeline match?
400
An American film producer during the early years of motion pictures. He was called "The Boy Wonder"
Who is Irving Thalberg.
500
In 1930, Hays created this committee to implement his censorship code, but it lacked any real enforcement capability.
What is the Studio Relations Committee (SRC)?
500
This film dramatically depicts the racial situation in America during the violent years of Jim Crow and the Ku Klux Klan.
What is Within Our Gates?
500
This uses a large depth of field, where the foreground, middle-ground and background are all in focus.
What is Deep Focus.
500
This became known and celebrated for its saturated levels of color, and was used commonly for filming musicals costume pictures and animated films.
What is Technicolor?
500
American film director and Academy Award-winning film producer in both silent and sound films. He was also renowned for the flamboyance and showmanship of his movies. The Ten Commandments (1956) and Cleopatra (1934) were a few of his films.