Film History
A film is another word for what?
Movie
A genre of fiction that consists of works intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter.
Comedy
A filmmaking technique in which objects are physically manipulated in small increments between individually photographed frames so that they will appear to exhibit motion.
Stop-motion.
The first full length American animated film.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
A science-fiction media franchise currently consisting of 6 films about human kind's ill-fated attempts to bring Dinosaurs back from the dead.
Jurassic Park
A movie that runs for 90 minutes or more is a called a "______ length film".
Feature.
feature length film.
A subgenre of horror that involved a killer stalking and murdering a group of people.
Slasher
A background in front of which moving subjects are filmed and which allows a separately filmed background to be added to the final image.
Green Screen
The integration of live-action footage and other live-action footage or CGI elements to create realistic imagery.
VFX
Mary Poppins
This movie was the first long movie to be produced in technicolor.
The Wizard of Oz
Star Wars is considered a science-fiction ______ genre film.
Fantasy
A specific-technology or application of computer graphics for creating or improving images in art, printed media, simulators, videos and video games.
CGI
A 1997 romantic drama about a "ship of dreams" that sank 2 days into its maiden voyage.
Titanic
The premiere Japanese animation studio that produced such films as Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle.
The first ever science-fiction film was called "A Trip to the ______"?
Moon.
A Trip to the Moon by Georges Méliès
The movie Free Solo about rock climber Alex Honnold on his quest to perform the first-ever free solo climb of El Capitan, in Yosemite National Park is what kind of film?
Documentary
A proprietary system of high-resolution cameras, film formats, film projectors, and theaters known for having very large screens.
IMAX
This multimedia franchise including 6 movies concerns the total war between Skynet - a militaristic machine network and the surviving human resistance.
Terminator
A coming of age hood crime drama directed by John Singleton in his directorial debut that earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Director at age 24.
Boyz in the Hood
Thomas Edison
A film that is made outside of a major studio system.
Independant or Indie Film
The standardized movie frame rate is how many frames (images) per second of film?
24
A musical comedy that takes places in the 1920s that depicts the transition from silent films to "talkies".
Singin' in the Rain
A coming of age film about a young black boy struggling to deal with his Mother's drug addiction and his own burgeoning sexuality.
Moonlight