Show:
French Cinema during WWI
Abel Gance
Gance's Films
From Disaster to Success
Delluc
100
This country was the film industries biggest foreign market.
What is the United States?
100
This was Gance's first job at the age of fifteen.
What is a law clerk?
100
This is the only main character to survive "J'accuse".
Who is Edith?
100
The unfortunate childhood of this filmmaker resulted in films focusing on the unification of the divided group, country, or world by a charismatic artist-leader.
Who is Gance?
100
This is something that Delluc is said to have invented
What is film criticism?
200
These films were deemed "unshowable" in America based on their subject matter.
What are The Piano Mistress and The Iron Worker's Daughter?
200
This term could be used as a label for most of Gance's protagonists.
What is the artist-hero?
200
This was to be the length of Gance's "Napoléon".
What is six films?
200
It was the shortage of this that brought Gance back to the cinema in 1915.
What is film personnel?
200
Delluc's greatest weapon in maneuvering for power and position within the film community
What is his criticism?
300
The acclaimed writer, Colette, said the public could find adventure, romance, and high-life at _______ during the hard times of WWI.
What is The Cinema?
300
Gance experimented with this technique in "Napoléon".
What is triple-screen images?
300
This film is considered lost forever, due to no surviving original cuts.
What is "J'accuse"?
300
Though not significant in the European market, the rights to this film were purchased for an enormous amount of money by movie mogul Adolph Zukor, and was ultimately a hit in the American market.
What is La Reine Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth)?
300
The word Delluc coined, meaning: anyone involved with the creative process of film-making.
What is cineaste?
400
This is the title of one of the last French film d'art spin-offs.
What is La Reine Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth)?
400
This was the main theme throughout most of Gance's films.
What is the artistic value of suffering?
400
This film by Abel Gance was almost five hours in length.
What is La Roue?
400
Gance's delicate health, exempting him from military service, led him to become a pacifist nationalist, which resulted in the creation of this film.
What is Un Drame au château d'Acre (Drama at the Acre Chateau)?
400
Delluc assured his central position in the French silent cinema's golden age with these three roles
What are filmmaker, critic, and organizer?
500
The year the last Pathé Frères films were produced.
What is 1920?
500
This director impressed many critics and filmmakers with his "Rembrandt lighting".
Who is Cecil B. De Mille
500
The author says this represents human existence.
What is the wheel in "La Roue"?
500
In 1915, this event allowed the French film industry to remain ahead of the American film industry, at least for the time being.
What is outcome of the anti-trust suit against the M.P.P.C?
500
This movement of which Delluc is a founder, was at the heart of what became an organized alternative film culture that attempted to influence the nations film making by bringing into the dialogue on its evolution not only artists and businessmen, but enlightened consumers as well.
What is the cine-club movement?