In the Beginning...
Persistence of vision and this allows us to see still pictures moving.
The phi phenomenon
The Southern state where Griffith was born.
Kentucky
In this silent shocker, this actor plays Alonzo the armless.
Lon Chaney
The last year of Pre-Code films
1934
Film focusing on a "Forgotten Man."
My Man Godfrey
The first movie studio
The Black Maria
Griffith perfected his craft at this studio in New York's 14th street.
Biograph
Director Paul Leni directed this film in America, but it owes a lot to German Expressionism.
"The Cat and the Canary"
Pre-Code film from 1933 about a giant ape that is brought to New York City.
"King Kong"
An angry Busby Berkeley dance number focusing on the bad treatment of American World War I veterans.
"Remember my Forgotten Man"
Louis Daguerre perfected his Daguerreotype in this country.
France
Griffith's cameraman
Billy Bitzer
He played Cesare, the sleepwalker in the landmark film, "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Conrad Veidt
"The Divorcee" is a Pre-Code film about a woman adultress starring this actress, wife of the head of MGM.
Norma Shearer
Pre-Code gangster film, starring James Cagney, that romanticized the criminal.
"The Public Enemy"
The Zoetrope was the invention of this Englishman.
James Horner
Griffith epic featuring the fall of Babylon.
"Intolerance"
Erich Pommer, a producer, eventually became the head of this gigantic film studio outside Berlin.
U.F.A.
The letters on the seal of this organization. They appear in many Pre-Code films.
MPPDA
A comic genre, popular in the 1930's, that aims to poke fun of the rich.
Screwball Comedy
WKL Dickson invented the _______, perhaps the first motion picture camera.
Kinetograph
Biblical epic Griffith directed right before making his best known work "The Birth of a Nation."
"Judith of Bethulia"
Actress who was the star of "The Birth of a Nation," she was in films from the 1910's to 1987.
Lillian Gish
Famous actor who starred in two pre-code films: "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" and "The Sign of the Cross."
Fredric March
The Hollywood studio that produced the gigantic Busby Berkeley musical production numbers such as "By a Waterfall."
Warner Brothers