Silent Cinema
Edison worked w/ ___________________ to develop the Kinetoscope and Kinetograph.
W.K. Dickson
_________________ is a 20th-century avant-garde movement in art and literature that sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind, for example by the irrational juxtaposition of images.
Surrealism
This French Impressionist film, directed by Germaine Dulac, is considered the first feminist film.
The Smiling Madame Beudet
“Because we are human, because we are bound by gravity and the limitations of our bodies, because we live in a world where the news is often bad and the prospects disturbing, there is a need for another world somewhere, a world where ___________ and ___________ live.” - Roger Ebert
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
The accepted systems, methods, or conventions by which the movies communicate with the viewer is called:
Cinematic Language
On December 29, 1895, ________________________ hosted the most famous film screening in history at the Grand Cafè in Paris.
Lumiere Bros
______________ Cinema stripped film of all story.
Pure
This French woman is credited as being the first female director.
Alice Guy Blache
Louis B. Mayer's claimed famous last words:
Nothing Matters
The process of capturing moving pictures on film or digital media is:
Cinematography
_________________ is a non-fiction film genre, like the documentary film, that uses footage of real events, places, and things, yet unlike the documentary is not structured into a larger argument, picture of the phenomenon or coherent whole.
Actualities
This style of documentary filmmaking combines improvisation with the use of the camera to unveil truth or highlight subjects hidden behind crude reality:
Cinema Vérité
This film, directed by Fritz Lang, revolves around the actions of a child serial killer.
M
Scarface is a pre-code gangster film directed by ______________.
Howard Hawks
______________ is the overall look and feel of a film – the sum of everything the viewer sees, hears, and experiences.
Mise en Scene
Along with D.W. Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, and Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford founded this production company.
United Artists
True or False: Director Dzinga Vertov developed a cinema technique called Kino-Eye, which assembled film fragments and edited them together in a montage.
True
This famous publication helped organize and ignite filmmakers in the French New Wave movement.
Cahiers du Cinema
Child actress Frances Ethel Gumm famously went on star in the MGM classic film as :
Dorothy Gale in The Wizard of Oz
A person who is fond of motion pictures is referred to as a:
Cinephile
This director's film Where are my Children depicts controversial imagery that may have questionable feminist motives, however, she was is credited with being one of the first to utilize a split screen technique.
Lois Weber
Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali
Seven Samurai director:
Akira Kurosawa
First film to win the BIG 5 at the Academy Awards:
It Happened One Night
This theory refers the magical ability of the camera to magnify the beauty of everyday objects – life – truths.
Photogenie