This began with the total mobilization of able bodied Frenchmen to fight.
What is the French Cinema Crisis?
100
This film would prove to be an enormous hit in the American market, providing the seed capital for what would later become Paramount Pictures.
What is La Reine Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth)?
100
Headed by George Méliès brother, Gaston, this was the American affiliate of The Star Film Company.
What is The Méliès Manufacturing Company?
100
Louis Delluc became editor in chief of this magazine, a weekly cinema publication, in 1917 after the war forced his previous one to cease publication.
What is Le Film?
100
Sometimes translated as "Film Society," this phrase meant more than the rather passive, defensive connotations of the translation which ill suited the activist, cinema consumers' rights orientation of the French organizations.
What is Ciné-club?
200
Plagued with ill health his whole life, this famous director was exempt from fighting during The Great War.
Who is Abel Gance?
200
This feature incorporated new lighting techniques that influenced a new style of filming. Critiqued as proof of American filmmaking becoming more advanced than that of French film producers.
What is The Cheat?
200
The Méliès subsidiary moved here for a more authentic look in their American Based films.
Where is San Antonio, TX?
200
Taking advantage of the personnel shortage caused by the Great War, this man started his career with the Film D'art company.
Who is Abel Gance?
200
A description of actors and scenes that critique them for their beauty rather than their talent.
What is photogénie?
300
This sector of the French economy came to a halt.
What is all industry unrelated to war?
300
One of Gance's most conventional and "safe" silent works
What is Napoléon?
300
The United States was the most significant foreign market to what country?
What is France?
300
This man is said to have “invented film criticism.”
Who is Louis Delluc?
300
During the Great War, the American market was able to create more elaborate features because of this business decision.
What is more investment in production?
400
D.W. Griffith's famous 1915 film.
What is Birth of a Nation?
400
First release of this feature work by Gance was in 3 feature length chapters
What is J'Accuse
400
Where was Pathe’s The Girl from Arizona Filmed?
What is the wilds of deepest New Jersey?
400
This is Abel Gance’s greatest contribution to the French silent cinema’s golden age.
What is the subjective rapid editing sequence?
400
This organization was established by Edison and later declared illegal by the Supreme Court as an attempt of vertical monopolization of the American film industry.
What is the Motion Picture Patents Company?
500
Abel Gance’s second film known today for its anamorphically distorted images, a cinematographic rendering of the madness, but was never seen by the public because Louis Nalpas was horrified by the imagery.
What is La Folie du docteur Tube?
500
Told the story of jealousy, hypnotism, a major earthquake, return from the dead, and a case of total madness
What is Un Drame au Chateau d’Acre (Drama at the Acre Chateau)
500
The U.S. Justice Department filed an anti-trust suit against the M.P.P.C. What year did the Federal District Court rule it illegal?
What is 1915?
500
A recurrent motif in Abel Gance’s films.
What is the unification of a divided group, country, or world by a charismatic artist-leader?
500
This shift in the direction of film added to the decline of independent circuits and helped spur the creation of cinemas.