Birth of movies
Eadweard Muybridge developed this kind of photography that paved the way for the motion pictures.
What is SERIES photography?
Many nickelodeon theaters were not dedicated movie theaters but instead this.
What are converted storefronts?
This pioneer of early cinema was first a farmer, then a novelist, before becoming a renowned filmmaker and producer.
Who is Oscar Micheaux?
This silent comedian broke Mary Pickford's salary record in 1916 and then a few years later went on to co-found United Artists.
Who is Charlie Chaplin?
Several of the Majors started out as this, before producing their own films.
What is exhibitor?
This camera-projector could also print the film for projection!
What is the Lumieres' Kinetograph?
The most powerful American film studio during the nickelodeon era.
What is Biograph?
This filmmaker innovated and refined many common techniques of film grammar, including the close-up, continuity editing, and cross-cutting.
Who is D.W. Griffith?
This silent comedian was a hands-on auteur, not only starring in his films but also producing, writing, directing, and scoring them.
Who is Charlie Chaplin?
The Studio System privileged these over directors, stars, and other personnel.
What are producers?
The first movie studio had a retractable roof to let sunlight in.
What is Edison's Black Maria?
By the end of the nickelodeon era, this emerged as the studios' greatest marketing feature.
What is the Star System?
This German-born filmmaker made his first Hollywood film using the then-new Fox Movietone sound-on-film system?
Who is F.W. Murnau?
To speed up the action, for comedic effect, silent filmmakers often did this.
What is shot at 12 fps and projected at 16 fps?
This studio, which became Hollywood's most powerful Major, started out as Famous Players-Lasky.
What is Paramount Pictures?
This peephole mechanism usually involved a person spinning a wheel with slits on each panel, such that the images shown in sequence within the wheel would seem to move in continuous motion.
What is a zoetrope?
By the end of the 1900s (1909, 1910), a 12- to 15-minute film was also called this.
What is a one-reeler?
The last shot of Man with a Movie Camera visualizes this concept-term that Vertov invented.
What is Kino-eye?
Buster Keaton, in The General and all of his films, performed this on his own.
What is stuntwork?
In addition to the cheap, open land and sunshine, movie outfits moved west to avoid this.
What are Edison's patent laws?
This replaced glass and paper as the film on which photographs could be printed, thus making possible projected motion pictures.
What is celluloid film?
After the nickelodeon era ended (1915), this kind of theater replaced it in the following decade.
What is the motion picture palace?
Before the Hollywood studio system became institutionalized and instrumentalized, this filmmaker was one of the leading American filmmakers of their time.
Who is Lois Weber (and women filmmakers more generally)?
According to the article we read, the main reason Keaton didn't transition well to the sound era is this.
What is, "Buster Keaton lost control of his films in the talkie era?"
Those studios that focused almost exclusively on production and less on exhibition were called this.
What is major-minor or the Little 3?