Early Movie Tech
What is a television?
The city that the movie industry was started in before moving to LA
What is New York?
The first movie to introduce synchronized sound
What is The Jazz Singer
This technique was used to make images appear to move in early films.
Stop motion or hand-cranked camera
The most popular streaming service in modern day
What is Netflix?
French Brothers invented this way of viewing and recording movies.
What is the cinematographe?
This supreme court case was responsible for the end of vertical integration
What is the Paramount Decision?
What is Jaws?
What technique involves cutting between different scenes to suggest they are happening at the same time?
Cross-cutting
One of the 4 studios who owned 95% of the movie industry in 2019.
Comcast, Disney, AT&T or National Amusements.
Device that Eadweard Muybridge attached to cameras to create the first moving picture.
What is trip wires?
This event led to the purging of many movie studios
What is the Great Depression?
What is Bonnie and Clyde?
Person who commissioned Eadweard Muybridge to create the first moving picture
Who is Leland Standford?
Speculated killer of Louis le Prince
Who is Thomas Edison?
Name of the first movie studio ever
What is The Black Maria?
This time frame in history first started including full length movies
What is the early 1900s
One of the first movies to include an actual storyline
What is a Trip to the Moon
This person was the first modern film director and had actual plots in their movie.
Daily Double
Who is George Melies
The punishment for trying to escape your contract during the golden age.
What is being sued?
Thomas Edison invented this way of watching and recording movies.
What is the Kinetiscope?
One of the first movies to popularize color movies
What is The Wizard of Oz?
This 2011 movie is about famous director George Melies
What is Hugo?
Georges Méliès pioneered this special effect technique where objects suddenly appear or disappear.
What is Stop substitution?
Metro Goldwy Mayer aka MGM only made this movie genre during the golden age
What is rags to riches?