The French cinema giants who scaled down production because of the rising popularity of American films.
Who are Gaumont and Pathé?
100
The post-war cinematic movement that young Abel Gance was "the most charismatic" of.
Who are the "New Blood" Impressionists
100
A young Delluc left the Paris Ecole Normale Supérieure to pursue this profession.
What is journalism?
100
The war that caused all this global turmoil experienced in industrial economies such as cinema, automobile and airplane manufacturing.
What is The Great War?
100
The experimental film technique that garnered "violent" criticism, some finding it "intolerable" and ineffective.
What is slow montage, unrealistic image-making?
200
In 1908 this "inventor" masterminded the formation of the M.P.P.C. with the intention of complete monopoly of production and distribution in the United States.
Who is Thomas Edison?
200
The recurrent motif in Gance's films that has been skeptically defined as "crypto-fascist"
What is the unification of a divided group, country, or world by a charismatic artist-leader?
200
The movement founded by Delluc that discussed, published and screened the kind of cinema their members thought should be made.
What is the ciné-club movement?
200
The French cinema decline was not-so surprising since the market relied heavily on the exports to this country.
What is the United States of America?
200
In 1913, Gance attempted to interest Pathé Frères with this new technology for film development.
What is the chromatic "alphabet"?
300
Possibly the most successful "new blood" impressionist filmmaker of the postwar period.
Who is Abel Gance?
300
The family structure in Gance's childhood that affected his work.
What is the social class difference of his parents?
300
Delluc's three coordinated and complementary roles in the French silent cinema's golden age.
What is filmmaker, critic, and organizer?
300
The European development geared toward American audiences that became the standard by replacing the nickelodeon.
What is the feature film?
300
The ambitious triple screen technique used by Gance, the filmic equivalent of the French flag.
What is the Polyvision system?
400
Departed from a life of social ascent and said to have invented film criticism.
Who is Louis Delluc?
400
As a visionary filmmaker, Gance made no distinction between these two concepts.
What are ideas and feelings?
400
Meaning 'mediocre' or 'juste milieu', was the title of Dullac's quasi-theoretical work cinema.
What is the photogénie?
400
French producers grabbed the attention of American audiences with these two pioneering Western film actors.
Who are "Bronco Billy" Anderson and Joe Hammon?
400
The lighting technique that used expressive shadows influencing many filmmakers including Abel Gance.
What is DeMille's "Rembrandt" lighting?
500
Inspired by Delluc and Gance, were the vanguard filmmakers of the next generation.
Who is Jean Renoir and René Clair?
500
Gance's greatest contribution to the French Silent Cinema's Golden Age.
What is the subjective or quasi-subjective rapid editing sequence?
500
After making three films, Delluc's visual style switched from cinematic impressionist to this style.
What is pictorialist naturalism?
500
After putting French film in a poor second place this ruled Edison's monopoly trust illegal in federal district court.
What is the U.S. Justice Department's filing of the anti-trust against Edison's M.P.P.C.?
500
A result of larger budgets, this filmic quality had an extravagant, "highly visible" cinematographic style.