Early Movie Tech
Revoultionary Changes
Most Iconic Movies
Film Techniques & Innovations
Misc
100
The device that people watch movies on today

What is a television?

100

The city that the movie industry was started in before moving to LA

What is New York?

100

The first movie to introduce synchronized sound

What is The Jazz Singer

100

This technique was used to make images appear to move in early films.

Stop motion or hand-cranked camera

100

The most popular streaming service in modern day

What is Netflix?

200

French Brothers invented this way of viewing and recording movies.

What is the cinematographe?

200

This supreme court case was responsible for the end  of vertical integration

What is the Paramount Decision?

200
Movie to create the term blockbuster

What is Jaws?

200

What technique involves cutting between different scenes to suggest they are happening at the same time?

Cross-cutting

200

One of the 4 studios who owned 95% of the movie industry in 2019.

Comcast, Disney, AT&T or National Amusements.

300

Device that Eadweard Muybridge attached to cameras to create the first moving picture.

What is trip wires?

300

This event led to the purging of many movie studios

What is the Great Depression?

300
This crime thriller was an iconic crime romance

What is Bonnie and Clyde?

300

Person who commissioned Eadweard Muybridge to create the first moving picture

Who is Leland Standford?

300

Speculated killer of Louis le Prince

Who is Thomas Edison?

400

Name of the first movie studio ever

What is The Black Maria?

400

This time frame in history first started including full length movies

What is the early 1900s

400

One of the first movies to include an actual storyline

What is a Trip to the Moon

400

This person was the first modern film director and had actual plots in their movie.

Daily Double

Who is George Melies


400

The punishment for trying to escape your contract during the golden age.

What is being sued? 

500

Thomas Edison invented this way of watching and recording movies.

What is the Kinetiscope?

500

One of the first movies to popularize color movies 

What is The Wizard of Oz?

500

This 2011 movie is about famous director George Melies

What is Hugo?

500

Georges Méliès pioneered this special effect technique where objects suddenly appear or disappear.

What is Stop substitution?

500

Metro Goldwy Mayer aka MGM only made this movie genre during the golden age

What is rags to riches?