The Pre-Talkie Era of Filmmaking

What do you call a story event that takes place in one location and broken into many shots?

What is the term for studios controlling movie production, distribution, and exhibition?

What's this editing tactic better known as?

Which innovation prevented the risk of film tearing, which led to more complex movies?

Which film goes down in history as the first feature-length talkie and first musical?

What are cylinders with sequential images painted on the inside and windows cut into the edges?

Who was considered the greatest male attraction in adventurous, romantic pictures of the 1920s?

What is the screenwriting term for an action taking place at the same time a line is spoken?

The pioneering footage documenting the atrocities of war was either...

What's the term for the luxurious structures built by major film studios to house orchestras?

What is film coated in?

Early film performers were usually credited in the opening sequence.

What length of film became the studio standard, lasting between 11-17 minutes?

Who's credited as the first female director, studio head, and innovator in color tinting?

Which of the following was NOT one of the Big Five studios?

Who took photography mainstream by inventing paper pictures developed without chemicals?

What was marked by dark shadows and dramatic visual story-telling and slanted, angular shots?

During which period did the US output the greatest number of feature films?

The Big Five studios controlled what percentage of fictional film distribution?

Who built a number of movie palaces in the Los Angeles area during the 1920s?

How far away from the camera did early film performers typically stand?

What's the term for traveling variety acts that entertained Americas throughout the 1880-1930?

Which of the following was NOT one of the Little Three studios?

What kind of film-viewing cabinet with a peephole on top did Edison release in 1891?

Who directed the landmark 1903 film, The Great Train Robbery, recognized as the first western?

Which film does this iconic still come from?

Do all four hooves of a running horse ever leave the ground at the same time?

If you want a character to continue talking when he/she isn't in the scene, you use this term:

What's the name for the editing technique that isolates a visual element with a circular mask?

Which was the forerunner to the slide projector?

Which director was associated with extravagant production values and biblical spectacles?

According to the Persistence of Vision, how long does your brain retain an image for?

The first commercially available, mass market means of recording a picture by chemical action?

What two brothers develop the cinematograph in 1895, which was superior to Edison’s model?

Which of these has a pinhole in one end and reflective surface like a mirror at the other?

Who discovered a way to perform illusions with innovative editing techniques?

What is considered to be the first experimental short film ever created?

Which of the following movie genres did NOT emerge during the 1920s?

Although the motion picture business moved west in the 1910s, where did it originate?

What is the name of Disney's first Technicolor cartoon, which won Walt his first Academy Award?

What is the literary term for the elements of our personalities on a deep level?

Which illusion permits you to see a series of images in rapid succession as continuous motion?

Which LA neighborhood became synonymous with Hollywood royalty after "Pickfair" was built?

Which is NOT one of the several functions of the first act of a screenplay?

When typed, which size and font should your screenplay use?

What is the Hollywood term meaning the main idea of your story?

Interchangeable picture wheels that attached to a wand were better known as?

What's the name of the Frenchman who swapped out strips for rolls of photographic paper?

The Lumiere films took audiences to far flung locations such as:

Who was the mentor of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton?

Which device was deemed the world’s first motion picture camera?

If a scene resembles a collage of action-packed images set to song, use the screenwriting term:

When you have two different scenes going on at the same time, utilize the screenwriting term:

This technique uses a strong key light, weaker fill at the front/sides, plus a backlight behind

AMPAS established this award in 1929 to recognize excellence within the film industry:

Edison and his studio rivals banded together to obtain control of the movie business to create

The world's first movie studio, which turned on a rail track to follow the sun’s rays?