The Beginnings of Cinema
The term movies is short for what?
Moving Pictures
The First Motion Picture Unit in Culver City, CA created movies for soldiers that taught what?
Weapon usage and survival techniques
This device allows the camera to move up and down in a certain way, and if you have a holster for the camera it can even tilt the camera to where it can go up and down
These two phases are usually the longest in the movie-making process.
Pre & Post-Production
This film process proved to be too expensive for many companies to use.
Technicolor
This was the first color movie, released in 1923.
Toil of the Sea
Which famous director made movies in support of Britain's part in WWII?
Alfred Hitchcock
This device sets up the context for the scene ahead, it is used to inform the audience where the action will take place
This step in the process provides the director and camera crew with a visual representation of what the shots should look like.
Storyboard & Shot Lists
Many actors were put out of work when this subsection of the film industry became popular.
Talkies
This event negatively impacted the film industry.
The Great Depression
Which group was convicted of communist activity during the Red Scare?
The Hollywood Ten
Wheeled camera that is used in movies or television to have smooth horizontal camera movements
Dolly/Tracking
The production phase has only one step in it.
Shooting
This popular consumer product led to less people attending the theater.
TV
This was the first feature-length film to use synchronized sound.
The Jazz Singer
Information, ideas, doctrines or special appeals disseminated to influence the opinion, emotions, attitudes or behavior of a specified group in order to benefit the sponsor.
Propaganda
Sound that emanates from the storyworld of the film.
Diegetic Sound
The most artistic part of the post-production phase.
Color Grading
What organization worked to add moral guidelines to the film industry?
The Motion Picture Association of America and Distributors of America (MPPDA)
Charlie Chaplin was a famous actor in which subsection of the film industry?
Silent Films
Actors, directors, and producers who were interrogated for Communist activity used this as their defense.
The First Amendment
Jurassic Park is known for having one of the best ___ of all time.
Scores
Assuming everything goes smoothly, making a movie takes on average this amount of time
2-4 years
Because human beings make movies, these will always be present in the creation and viewing of movies.
Social Issues