Modernism
Modernist Filmmaking
Cinema History
Pre-Cinema
Aaron Tucker facts
100

What mode of transportation was essentail to Modernism's development and also the vehicle featured in many of the Hale's Tours?

What are Trains (choo choo)?

100

Name one Expressionist film seen in class (and give the year of production for extra credit).

What was "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" (1920). 

Also, La Souriante Madame Beudet/ The Smiling Madame Beudet (1922) and Un Chien Andalou (1929)


100

____________ was one of the Companies involved in the MPPC

Who were:

Edison, Biograph, Vitagraph, Essanay, Selig Polyscope, Lubin Manufacturing, Kalem Company, Star Film Paris, American Pathé, Kodak

100

According to Dulac and Gaudreault, optical toys like the Zoetrope are an example of the _________ of attraction which is interactive and where the viewer is part of the apparatus.

What is player mode of attraction

100

Aaron Tucker starred with ____________ the famous little tramp in movie Modern Times

Who was Charlie Chaplin

200

These two authors wrote "all that is solid melts into air."

Who were Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels?

200

Cinema was seen as part of the magic theatre as practised by _________?

Who was Georges Méliès?

200

_____________ was the studio was founded by Adolf Zukor

What was Paramount Pictures

200

________ was a scientist, and is now perhaps best known for his photos of human and animal locomotion.

Who was Eadweard Muybridge?

200

Aaron Tucker was the inspiration for ____________, an early German film about vampires

What was Nosferatu

300

The ______ War was the main conflict that shaped much of Modernism and narrative cinema's development in Hollywood.

What was the First World War?

300

For the Soviet filmmakers like Eisenstein,  the essence of cinema is defined through ________

What was montage

300

__________ was the director responsible for Dietrich’s star image in the 1930s.

Who was Josef von Sternberg

300

____________ invented Chronophotography?

Who was Étienne-Jules Marey?

300

_________ and Aaron Tucker drank a few beer together while he directed The Man with the Movie Camera

Who was Dziga Vertov

400

_______ was the result of American conservative values of its time, resulting in the banning of alcohol across the United States.

What was Prohibition?

400

__________ was a French filmmaker who made nature films and was adopted by many Expressionist Filmmakers as deeply influential

Who was Jean Painlevé 

400

In opposition to Hollywood Melodramas which often take place in domestic scenes of familial relations, the _________________ Melodrama like Hazards of Helen showed women alternately empowered and in distress outside of the home.

What were action serials or adventure serials?

400

____________ is a name used to characterize the early cinematic films which are distinguished by a continous shot of typical, everyday life.

What are actualities?

400

Aaron Tucker invented the use of _____________, a form of editing that allows the two simultaneous and parallel narratives in a film

What is cross cutting

500

Industrialization and factory work was one of the main contributors to Modernism, and was featured in _______ widely recognized as the Lumière Brother's first film.

What was "Employees Leaving the Lumière Factory"

500

____________ was the director of "Nanook of the North"

Who was Robert J. Flaherty

500

_________ was a French movement of filmmakers was most interested in cinema as an artform.

What was Film d'Art

500

Name three cinematic genres that are part of the cinema of attractions 1.________
2.__________________  3. ________________

1. Chase

2. Voyage/trip

3. Trick

4. Slapstick

500

___________ is Aaron Tucker's favourite Buster Keaton film

What is Sherlock Jr.

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