In this year, Edison is credited with inventing the kinetograph and the kinetoscope.
What was 1894?
100
Invented by Edison, this device allowed one person at a time to see a short movie.
What is the kinetoscope?
100
This American inventor was credited with inventing several devices that allowed the film industry to develop.
Who is Thomas Edison?
100
American movie-goers expect their films to follow a specific pattern, known for its circular shape.
What is the narrative structure?
100
These early places to view films housed several viewing machines, and people could pay a quarter to view five films.
What is a kinetoscope parlor?
200
The first time viewers could see a movie projected onto a screen was this year.
What is 1896?
200
This invention allowed many viewers to watch a film at the same time.
What is the cinematograph?
200
These French brothers are called the founding fathers of film.
Who are Auguste and Louis Lumiere?
200
The process of breaking films into parts, based on changes in time or location, to analyze the film.
What is segmentation?
200
This early, inexpensive theater which bears the same name as a kids tv channel, allowed immigrants, middle class and wealthier viewers to mingle.
What is a nickelodeon?
300
In this year, audiences saw Birth of a Nation, the ground-breaking film created by D.W. Griffith.
What is 1915?
300
Another invention by Edison, this device was the American version of the earlier French invention.
What is the vitascope?
300
This early director created a style of story-telling that has been used since the release of his 1915 film, developed unique camera angles and shooting techniques, and enraged the nation with his work.
Who is D.W. Griffith?
300
American films begin with this state of balance or equilibrium, which explains how things normally are for the main characters.
What is the status quo?
300
Movie makers voluntarily submitted their films to this organization to make sure the content was appropriate for audiences.
What is the National Board of Censorship?
400
This year, audiences could actually hear an actor speak for the very fist time in a film.
What is 1927?
400
This device, first purchased by Warner Brothers-First National, allowed music, and later the spoken word, to be recorded on disc, and sent to theaters along with films.
What is the vitaphone?
400
Famous for his slapstick style of acting, marrying 4 times, and the comedic character "The Little Tramp", this actor/director/producer was the first Hollywood actor to make a million dollars.
Who is Charlie Chaplin?
400
This is what sets everything in motion, and changes things for the main characters.
What is the disruption?
400
These huge theaters often seated several hundred people, surrounding them in luxery.
What are movie palaces?
500
The sound on film or sound strip was invented in this year.
What is 1935?
500
The long-term method of recording sound, invented in 1935.
What is the sound strip?
500
This jazz singer spoke the first lines to be heard in an American film.
Who is Al Jolson?
500
This contract between movie-makers and the audience allows the viewers to believe that the events and actions of a movie are real.
What is willing suspension of disbelief?
500
This director used the camera as an observer, recording events as they occurred. His most famous film was the tale of the day in the life of an American fireman.