From Big Tops to Box Offices
The Stage Evolves
Max Linder and film d’art
Two Neighboring Summits
Big Ideas
100
This was provided by traveling entertainers equipped with films and projection equipment of diverse origins and varying degree of mechanical reliability until about 1905.
What is film exhibition?
100
The true film authors at Pathé Frères.
What are set designers??
100
__________________ acting career was heavily influenced by Max Linder.
Who is Charley Chaplain?
100
This filmmaker used lighting effectively to make people and objects shimmer.
Who is Léonce Perret?
100
This person, like Pathé’s Zecca, was assigned the “task” of Gaumont’s film productions.
Who is Alice Guy?
200
This annual fundraiser, like with many temporary theatres, ended in a catastrophic fire and a victim count of 140 people.
What is the 1897 Charity Bazaar?
200
In nearly established French urban cinemas around 1908, an average program lasted this long.
What is two hours?
200
During World War I, Max Linder worked in the ______________________. However, because it was 1917 and his career was already on the downslope, this did little to help his withering career.
What is the United States?
200
A specialist in the crime serial, this director used location shooting, naturalistic sets, and limited editing, which made the film's settings realistic.
Who is Louis Feuillade?
200
This film shot, used by Perret, cuts characters off somewhere between the chest and the ankles.
What is the American Shot?
300
This French precursor to the nickelodeon theatre was opened in 1904 by Madame Léon Richebé and her family in the waterfront district of Marseilles.
What is the Poulaire Cinéma?
300
This is a 1905 film, most likely directed by Zecca, that exemplifies the Pathé set design style and its careful attention to perspective and general visual homogeneity.
What is Au Bagne/Scenes of Convict Life?
300
n 1907, this actor replaced Max Linder in a film called Max Learns to Skate for Pathe films.
Who is Gréhan?
300
The high point of the serial melodrama coincided with this historical occurrence.
What is WWI?
300
The first identified running comic character, he was a singer and acrobat before appearing in a number of Pathé’s chase films.
Who is André Deed/ André de Chapais?
400
These victims of the country’s demographic shift and campaign against them led by Charles Pathé fought the growing regulation of their facilities, but with little success.
Who are traveling showmen?
400
This was something of a fad in the early teens of which Doctor Jean Comandon was the undisputed master.
What is scientific cinema?
400
Film d’art ‘s first public program of this work was presented to a select invited audience on November 17, 1908.
What is La Mort du duc de Guise/The Assasination of the Duc de Guise ?
400
The biggest success in the serial genre was ___________.
What is Fantômas?
400
The restraint, efficiency and expressive acting characterized the _____________ of the Société Cinématographique des Auteurs et Gens de Lettres.
What is film d’art/ “art” films?
500
This move by the Pathé Frères strengthened their position to control profit and consequently encouraged competition.
What is ceasing the sale of films/ only renting films?
500
Mademoiselle Alice did two supremely important things, one of which was train film makers the other was this, created over time.
What is the Gaumont “House Style”?
500
Because of volume and excellent box office returns, film comedy dominated French cinema until 1914. These are three other important currents of that period.
What are the film d’art, the serial, and pictoralist melodrama?
500
Technically and aesthetically superior, this film features a young girl being kidnapped, hidden in various locations, and then rescued by an orphan boy.
What is L'Enfant de Paris?
500
Linder and the technicians who worked for him employed these and other elements of the so-called “language of cinema”.
What are match-on-action cutting, split screen effects and glance/object editing?