Misc. Clips
Directors
Hollywood
Mixed Bag
Shots
100
Clip 1
What is Midnight Rambles?
100
A Trip to the Moon?
Who is George Méliès?
100
Administered after the 1930s until the 1960s to regulate film content.
What is the production code?
100
Entire film has symbolic meaning
What is an allegory?
100
A shot framed to reveal anything smaller than the human face.
What is an extreme closeup?
200
Clip 2
What is A Trip to the Moon?
200
Battleship Potemkin.
Who is Sergei Eisenstein?
200
Lowest level of the Hollywood studio system--makers of b-pictures
What is poverty row?
200
Genre in which characters overcome the obstacles.
What is comedy?
200
A shot basically of scenery, location, vista, in which human beings may be seen.
What is an extreme long shot.
300
Clip 3
What is The Piano?
300
Great Train Robbery
Who is Edwin S. Porter?
300
A film that taps the maximum possible general audience--goal of Hollywood from the 1970s on.
What is a blockbuster?
300
Genre of actuality film that is made from previously released films.
What is a compilation film?
300
Shot that shows a person's face and a significant portion of their body.
What is a medium shot?
400
Clip 4
What is Run Lola Run?
400
The Battle of the Somme
Who is Charles Urban?
400
A series of shots cut together to show the passage of time or to compress a journey.
What is "Hollywood Montage?"
400
a form of communication that achieves its effects primarily before or at the moment of delivery.
What is consummatory?
400
A shot that shows human beings from below the feet to above the head, plus some of the environment.
What is a medium shot?
500
Clip 5
What is Midnight Ramble?
500
The Learning Tree
Who is Gordon Parks?
500
Committee that blacklisted Hollywood stars for alleged communist affiliation?
What is the HUAC - House UnAmerican Activities Committee?
500
When everything, or almost everything in a shot is clearly in focus (think Citizen Kane)
What is deep focus
500
A shot framed to cover the space of the human face from just aboe the head to just above the shoulders.
What is a close up?
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