People In French Cinema
What famous American inventor developed a viable electrically recorded and reproduced sound-on-film process in the early 1920’s?
Who is Lee De Forest?
How did the American company, Paramount, attempt to enter the European film market?
The company took possession of old Aubert studios in Paris.
The first French "sound picture?"
What is Le Collier de la reine (The Queen's Necklace)?
Where was the first attempt to market synchronized sound film?
What was the Paris World’s Fair of 1900?
How long were ‘feature films’ standardized to (with very few notable exceptions)?
75 minutes to 2 hours
Who refused to bankroll Le Dernier Millionaire on political grounds, worried that it would be considered commentary on Hitler’s recent seizure of power in Germany?
Who is Tobis Klangfilm?
The second great crisis of French Cinema, like the first, brought what with it?
What is a new generation of film artists?
This film contains some of Clair's most daring experiments in the sound film.
What is A Nous la Libertie?
When did Western Electrical perfect its own cinema sound process?
When was 1924?
The only French sound system, producing inferior sound quality, and its patents were quickly merged with the Tobbis ones.
What is the Goumount-Peterson-Poulsen Process?
What famous Frenchman went to the street and vomited following Bernard Natan informed him that he would not be employed by Natan again, following a viewing of his film La Petite Lise?
Who is Jean Gremillon?
During the 1930s economic crisis, what were two weaknesses within in the sound technology industry?
The french market was too small and the industry was too fragmented.
This film was a revelation to young, aspiring independent filmmakers throughout the world in the late 1930's and early 1940's.
What is Le Sang d'un poete?
What year was the first real French talkie released?
When was 1924? (Les Trois Masques)
Paramount had a “cultural facelessness” that stemmed from the need to do what with their films?
Translate their film scripts into 13 different languages.
What French filmmaker continued making films after many setbacks, but was forced to limit his pursuit of aesthetic experiment and cinematic self-expression?
Who is Abel Gance?
Warner Brothers planned to cut production costs with a strategy combining what two uses of synchronized sound?
Filmed Vaudeville short subjects and conventional “silent” features with recorded music accompaniments.
The Film containing music, which almost completely dominates the soundtrack, often masking dialogue.
What is Sous les toits de Paris (Under the Roofs of Paris)?
Paramount entered the European film market by taking possession of Aubert studios in what year?
When was April of 1930?
Why was there less variation in cinematic style from one feature film to another?
Editing was more difficult and costly.
What two filmmakers had demonstrated artistic pragmatism and the interest in story-telling which would be crucial assets during the transition to sound?
Who are Jean Renoir and Rene Clair?
With the coming of synchronized recorded sound to cinema, what other factor intensified the sudden, massive change from outside the industry.
What is Industrialized Capitalism?
This film aroused the ire of the extreme Right and provoked hostile response by several of the recently organized fascist leagues
What is L'Age d'or ?
When was the virtual demise of modernist cinema?
When was 1929 to roughly 1932?
What was of crucial importance in regards to decoupage classique?
The increased psychological presence of the physical world