The World's Fair of 1900
Film Exhibition
Gaumont Productions
Genre
Early Cinémas
100
This machine set the standards for the proportion of the film image.
What is Edison's Kinetoscope?
100
Prior to 1905, this was the way films were provided to the public.
Who were the traveling entertainers equipped with films and projection equipment of diverse origins and varying degrees of mechanical reliability?
100
Léon Gaumont benefited from his new business policy and was his only substantial rival.
Who is Charles Pathé?
100
Tracing back to Le Jardinier et le petit espiègle, this type of work dominated among the other genres.
What is comic film?
100
A French precursor the Nickelodeon Theatre.
What is the Poplulaire Cinéma?
200
Presented at the 1900 World's Fair this apparatus was the first major attempt to change the proportions of the film image.
What is the Lumières' Cinématographe Géant?
200
Madame Léon Richebé and her family opened the first one in Marseilles. It was affordable for the working class.
What was the first Cinéma?
200
Assigned to the task of film production by Gaumont.
Who is Alice Guy?
200
Scenes that were written by Feuillade that shun all fantasy and represent people and things as they are and not as they should be.
What is slices of life?
200
Before being renovated into a flagship, this cinéma was a giant indoor skating rink.
What is the Gaumont Palace?
300
A briefly successful sound film system that premiered at the World's fair of 1900.
What is the Photo-Cinéma-Théâtre?
300
The most important factor in the decline of traveling exhibition.
What is demographic?
300
The two "supremely important" things Guy did as a director and producer.
What is creating the Gaumont "house style" and assembling a team of filmmakers who would be the best in the business?
300
Films that depict the balance of power shifting back and forth and typically told from the restricted point of view of the less powerful side.
What are Feuillade's crime serials?
300
At this event, 140 people died in a fire caused by a film projector accident and led to the establishment of fixed exhibition.
What is the 1897 Charity Bazaar?
400
A kind of filmic version of the Diorama devoted to sea voyages.
What is the Maréorama?
400
He led a campaign against traveling entertainers.
Who is Charles Pathé?
400
Where Gaumont films are more likely to take place (in contrast to Pathés')
What are real locations?
400
Films aimed at a different, socially more elevated audience than was the comic school.
What is film d'art?
400
Around 1910 this city had over a hundred cinémas.
What is Paris?
500
A problem for many projectors that led to major safety hazards at the World Fair among other events.
What is heat/fire?
500
The way in which Charles Pathé led his campaign against the traveling entertainers.
What is only renting out films instead of selling them?
500
This distinguishes the Pathé film operation from the one founded by Gaumont.
What is the Gaumont company took more risks and had more joy in their work?
500
A type of filmmaking before the Great War filmed by Léonce Perret.
What is pictorialist melodrama?
500
Traveling entertainers did this to films which encouraged the push towards fixed exhibition.
What is modifiying the films to fit their own needs?