Early Film
In the 1890s, theater chains like B. F. Keith's and Orpheum began featuring motion pictures as part of this type of popular variety show also known as:
Vaudeville
She was one of the first major Hollywood stars, earning more than a million dollars per year in 1917 and helping to found United Artists in 1919.
Mary Pickford
As the Hollywood narrative expanded, editing was used to maintain continuity. This technique was used to motivate or explain the connection between two shots.
Eyeline Match
In 1925, this Hollywood studio was first to embrace sound films, releasing a series of vaudeville shorts.
Warner Bros.
Celebrated for its use in films like Citizen Kane, this new technique allowed multiple planes to be simultaneously visible within a given shot.
Deep Focus
Thomas Edison's New Jersey studio where his first films were made was nicknamed the
Black Maria
Mise-en-scène refers to:
What’s in front of the frame
To understand the Classical Hollywood Narrative Style, it is important to distinguish between 'plot' and 'story'. Story refers to:
The complete chronology of events referenced by a film
During the 1940s, MGM became closely associated with the Technicolor musical, the best-known producer of which was:
Arthur Freed
Throughout the classical period, Hollywood used genres as a way of appealing to audiences' expectations. Genres can be identified by common thematic or narrative elements as well as through a shared __________ (the use of similar settings, props, and stock characters).
Iconography
In 1895, the Lumière Brothers introduced their new motion picture device here:
Paris
Once Adolph Zukor built Paramount into the industry's dominant studio, he used his leverage to force theaters to book a whole year's worth of his films even before they were made. This practice is also known as:
Block Booking
The Hollywood film can be divided in different ways. Its microstructure consists of these, one of film's smallest units of measurement and the basis of larger patterns which provide plot coherence.
Shots
These types of films were low-budget and second-rate but still an important source of profits for many of the Hollywood studios.
B Movies
Coined by the French after World War II, this genre is full of murky shadows and morally ambivalent heroes.
Film Noir
Nickelodeon's were small, makeshift theaters that proliferated between 1904 and 1910. By what year had the nickelodeon replaced the vaudeville theater as the primary outlet for movie exhibition?
1908
Paramount acquired Balaban & Katz theaters in 1925, integrating its corporate leadership and rebranding the chain as:
Publix
This character, as developed by Charlie Chaplin, is behind some of early cinema's most memorable images.
The Little Tramp
Walt Disney films, including its hit Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, were distributed by this studio between 1937 and 1954.
RKO
Producers like Henry Blanke of Warner Bros. tended to err on the side of caution, supervising a series of unrelated but generally successful films. By contrast, this producer struck out on his own and distinguished himself as the driving force behind the studio era's highest-grossing film.
David O. Selznick
In 1908, Thomas Edison instituted a monopoly-like licensing arrangement with his top competitors forming the:
Motion Picture Patents Company
In 1915, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the first amendment right of free expression did not extend to motion pictures, thus allowing for state sanctioned:
Censorship
Editing rules were needed to make the Classical Hollywood Narrative Style work efficiently. For example, this type of shot became the standard way of opening a new scene.
Establishing Shot
In 1934, the Hays Office formally established the Production Code Administration. It was overseen by:
Joesph Breen
In 1938, the US government filed suit against the Big Five studios for violating anti-trust regulations. When the ruling was finally issued in this year, it forced the studios to sell off the theaters that they had controlled.
1948