The cabinet of Dr. Calligari is a 1920 film , with its sharp edges and fantasy horror that was ground breaking for this film movement.
What is German Expressionism?
100
In 1802, this man made the first recorded attempt to produce photographs.
Who is Thomas Wedgewood?
100
This war changed the international landscape and caused filmmakers to acknowledge the horrors of war, the postwar challenges, and hopes for the future.
What is World War II?
100
This woman was the first female director.
Who is Alice Guy Blaché?
100
These are the three main approaches to studying Film History.
What are the Aesthetic Approach, the Technological Approach, and the Economic Approach?
200
this movement in film was from 1924-1930 in which the movement was led by directors such as Lev Kuleshov, Sergi Eisenstein and Dziga vertov.
What is Soviet Montage?
200
In 1839, who was the first to coin the phrase photography in a lecture at the Royal Society of London for the Promotion of Natural Knowledge?
Who is Sir John Herschel?
200
The movies produced during Hollywood's Golden Age aimed to get the public out of the house and into the theater in order help them forget this era.
What is The Great Depression?
200
This filmmaker was a modernist with a commitment to making cinema an art independent from the other forms of creative expression.
Who is Sergei Eisenstein?
200
Known as the first “Western” film and first major milestone in the development of the American narrative film.
What is the Great Train Robbery?
300
From 1927-1947 , genre dominated productions included screwball comedies, musical gangster films westerns and historical epics.
What is Hollywood's Golden Age?
300
In 1874, French astronomer Pierre-Jules-Cesar Janssen developed this invention that creates exposures automatically, at short intervals, on different segments of a revolving plate.
What is Revolver Photographique?
300
These two art movements influenced the French Avant Garde film movement.
What are dadaism and surrealism?
300
This film revolutionized the medium and has since been considered the most important movie ever made.
What is Orson Welles;s Citizen Kane?
300
A handcranked device that served as a camera, projector, and film printer is known as what?
What is a Cinematographe?
400
Developed during the second war, this cinematic style included actual locations, nonprofessional actors, and a documentary visual style that included natural lighting.
What is Italian Neorealism?
400
This English photographer demonstrated the first series of photographic images in motion using a horse galloping away.
Who is Eadweard Muybridge?
400
German Expressionism reflected the general atmosphere of cynicism, alienation, and disillusionment in Germany after this war.
What is World War I?
400
This master of suspense and surprise was admired by New Wave directors and is frequently used as the perfect example of the director as auteur.
Who is Alfred Hitchcock?
400
Thomas Edison's staff made their movies, including Fred Ott's Sneeze, inside this crude, hot, and cramped shack.
What is the Black Maria?
500
in 1960 Jean–Luc Godard’s revolutionizing cinematic conventions by marrying the rapid cuts, hand held cameras, unusual camera angles, and elliptical editing was a staple in this genre.
What is French New Wave?
500
In 1891, William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, working with associates in Thomas Edison’s research laboratory, made the first motion picture camera and peephole viewer, which are also known as what?
What is Kinetograph and the Kinetoscope?
500
Vladimir Lenin famously proclaimed that cinema would be the most important of the arts in the effort to reunify the shattered nation of Soviet Russia following this important historical event.
What is the Bolshevik (Communist) Revolution of 1917?
500
This filmmaker was an intuitive and innovative artist, and in this legendary (but controversial) movie we see him perfecting a style that included dazzling set of technical achievements.
Who is D.W. Griffith and the Birth of a Nation?
500
This film was directed by Orson Welles and is considered to have revolutionized the medium of film and thus becoming the most important film ever made.