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1
The resurgence of what led to even stricter set of prohibitions in the MPDDA code?
Alcoholic product placement
Gangster films
Sexual content
2
What is an example of genre?
Excitement
Fear
Suspense
Anger
3
What is an example of classical Hollywood style?
Shot-Reverse Shot
Continuity Editing
Neither
Both
4
What became an important instrument in broadcasting the voices and stories about stars
Television
Sound Films
Radio
5
What was it called when a studio owned the theater in which their films were shown?
Vertical integration
Integration rule
Studio theater shows
6
What is a Russian Montage?
When a scene is accompanied by music
When one scene parallels another earlier scene
A rapid collision of shots to create meaning
7
Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford were among influential figures that put together what?
Universal Studios
Paramount Pictures
United Artists
8
The Great Train Robbery has one of the earliest examples of what?
Tracking shot
Extreme close up
Parallel editing
9
What made gambling and drunkenness attractive
Ratings
The 13 points
Actors personal lives
10
What expanded the recognition of stars and made them into celebrities?
Newspapers
Intertitle credits
Fan magazines
11
What is rear screen projection?
Rear screen projection
Words the audience sees, but the actors don't
The background of the film
12
Until the 20th century, films were relatively short in length
False
True
13
What did D.W. Griffith rely on to create a more natural way of portraying thoughts and emotions
Close up
Shot-reverse shot
Tracking shot
Vertical integration
14
What studio did Edison build in New Jersey?
Black Maria
Universal
Warner Bros.
Paramount
15
What is used to control shadows?
3-point lighting
Front light
Fill light
Full lighting
16
What are alternating scenes that may be happening at the same time but in different places?
Continuity
Parallel editing
Parallel cut
17
What is fiction film?
A film based on a book
A narrative of made up events
When the actors aren't believable
18
What were little storefront theaters situated in diverse locations around cities?
Nickelodeaons
Dime shows
Movie boxes
Cinemas
19
What is the convention that the camera cannot cross an imaginary line?
Line rule
180 degree rule
Continuity rule
Follow through rule
20
What is a shooting convention used specially for continuity in classical Hollywood style?
Zoom lenses
Close up
Eyeline matching
21
The point of a Producer system was what?
To guarantee distribution
Both
Neither
To consolidate production
22
Genres are a relatively new introduction as a way of macerating movies
True
False
23
Who faced legal challenges in the late 1940's, putting an end to vertical integration?
Warner Bros
Paramount
MGM
24
What is a staple of continuity style?
180 degree rule
Shot-reverse shot
Close ups
3-point lighting
25
Who is associated with the 13 points?
W.K.L. Dickson
Thomas Edison
William Hays
D.W. Griffith
26
In the era of the Studio System, film production had converged with the principles of what?
Taylorism
Both
Neither
Fordism
27
What was Oscar Micheaux's response to Birth of a Nation?
Romance of the Happy Valley
The Homesteader
The Birth of a Race
28
What is the entirety of visual space, including lighting, camera placement, and movement?
Mise-en-scene
Vertical integration
Tracking
Scene
29
Cutting between characters taking part in a dialogue scene became the norm during Silent Cinema
True
False
30
What is the process of forcing theaters to show all the studio's releases, not just major films
Block booking
Full showing
All block
31
In three point lighting, what illuminates the faces of the characters?
Soft light
Key light
Glamour light
32
Who directed The Great Train Robbery?
D.W. Griffith
Edwin Porter
W.K.L. Dickson
33
D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation due to its overtly racist content was a box office failure
False
True
34
What is an example of an MPAA rating?
E
PG13
M
35
A dolly shot is often used to move closer to a character at a moment of what?
Stress
Both
Neither
Surprise
36
What is a tracking shot?
A moving camera shot on a vertical axis
A moving camera shot on a horizontal axis
A slow close up of an individual
When movement is captured in a scene
37
Who is associated with pioneering synchronous sound with films?
Fox
Warners Bros
MGM
38
What is a kinetoscope?
Device that allowed viewers to watch moving images in a box
A type of early camera
A small theater that showed only one studio's work
39
Early film was whose medium?
Producer's
Director's
Actor's
40
Documentaries existed since the beginning of film
False
True
