Famous Films
Famous film from the 1930's known for combining several visual effects such as stop motion and rear projections. The film also features a giant gorilla.
What is King Kong?
This editing technique is the idea that the juxtaposition of images creates meaning. This technique is named after a Russian filmmaker.
What is the Kuleshov Effect
This type of film typically features cowboys and the "Wild West." The Searchers is an example of this.
What are Westerns?
Early motion picture device designed for people to view films through a peephole.
What is the Kinetoscope?
A censorship code that provided guidelines for all American films released up until the 1960’s.
What is the Hays Code?
The first animated feature film
Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
When a film cuts back and forth between two scenes implying they are happening simultaneously
What is cross-cutting?
This type of film was popular in the 1940's and tended to feature dark, suspenseful stories about crime and typically featured cinematography that used dark shadows. Double Indemnity is an example of this.
What is film noir?
This pair of brothers figured out how to sync sound to picture and founded their own film studio.
Who are Warner brothers?
Early film history term meaning a film that contains sound.
What is a talkie?
This movie is the first summer blockbuster, the first film to make $100 million in the box office.
What is Jaws
This technique involves projecting pre-recorded film onto a screen behind the actors being filmed.
What is rear projection?
Art movement in post-WW1 Germany that emphasizes artists inner feelings over replicating reality
What is German Expressionism
Film camera invented by the Lumiere Brothers that also functioned as a projector
Free Space!
Free Space!
This movie musical highlighted the shift from silent films to films with sound.
What is Singing in the Rain
This filmmaker is responsible for the film "The Great Train Robbery" and is credited for being a pioneer in cross-cutting technique.
Who is Edwin S. Porter
This type of film came about in the 1950's in order to compete with television. These films featured elaborate sets, wide screen aspect ratios, and were often period pieces.
What are Hollywood epics?
Process used to produce early color motion pictures.
What is technicolor?
This film was boundary-pushing in the 1940's, starred Orson Welles and is considered by some to be the greatest film ever made.
What is Citizen Kane?
An Alfred Hitchcock film, largely responsible for ending the Hayes Code
What is Psycho
This filmmaker accidentally discovered editing and used it to experiment with in camera effects/narratives
Who is Georges Melies?
This film reinvented the crime genre, changed the way the mafia is portayed, and set a new standard for what movies can be.
What is the Godfather?
This was the first film to have synchronized sound.
What is The Jazz Singer?
What film term refers to arrangement of everything appearing in front of the camera