Who's Who?
Possibly the most successful "new blood" impressionist filmmaker of the postwar period.
Who is Abel Gance?
Adolph Zukor paid how much for La Reine Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth, 1912).
How much is $35,000?
Delluc's three major roles in the French silent cinema's golden age.
What is filmmaker, critic, and organizer?
What the film industry depended heavily on when it came to profit.
What are exports (of films)?
These style of films of more than 20 minutes in length won over broad audiences in Europe before they appealed to a vast amount of American viewers.
What are feature films?
Unique film style called du lusque or “luggsury”.
Who is Cecil B. De Mille?
This type of film quickly became more popular than nickelodeon.
What is a feature film?
La folie du docteur Tube (The Insanity of Doctor Tube, 1915) is well known today for this.
What are anamorphically distorted images that represented madness?
The Edison trust benefit this french film producer the most.
Who was Pathé?
While most of Gance's critics and industry colleages saw his films as playing off the widely popular drama plots, this is how Gance saw his stories.
What is taking his stories seriously and seeing them as telling great truths?
Famous directors who went to america when the war began.
Who are Max Linder and Leonce Perret?
American film by Cecil Mille and critqued as "luggsury".
What is The Cheat (1915)?
This is what Gance did to J'accuse that has made the film no longer viewable to an extent.
What is shortening the film, rewriting the titles, and altering the nature of its commentary on WWI without saving any copies of the earlier version of the film?
This is what the Pathé and Gaumont did to remedy the success of imports becoming a conflict of interest with their own French productions declining in profitability.
What was distributed and exhibited an increasing amount of American films while cutting back on the number and scale of their own films they created?
In regards to presenting his films, Gance dreaded and expected this reaction.
What is the lack of understanding from his producers and his public?
The first to critique films and profiting, created Le Film.
Who is Louis Delluc?
In 1915, this event allowed the French film industry to remain ahead of the American film industry.
When was the MCCP deemed illegal?
In 1913, Gance came up with new technology for film development.
What is the chromatic "alphabet"?
Where many features were shown outside the nickelodeon circuit.
What were mainly "road shows" situated in more play-based theatres?
For the French audience, these were the two notable advantages the American films had over French productions.
What is du lusque (luggsury) and unmatchable extravagance due to larger budgets?
Famous directors who stayed in france during the war.
Who are Louis Feuillade, Henri Fescourt, and Henri Pouctal?
Two major powers of French cinema were vertically integrated, combining production, distribution, and exhibition.
Who were Pathé and Gaumont?
Gance created a filmic equivalent of the French flag but the technique was not really used until the 1950s.
What is Polyvision system?
From 1914 to 1916 the French national film production saw this change in its share of its home market.
What was the French film market losing around half its shares in 2 years?
How American social reformers viewed European films.
What was seen as being immoral?