 |
1 | |
Which of the following was not a technological precondition for motion pictures? |
| | A) | the capacity to project images on a surface |
| | B) | the capacity to print photographs on a flexible base |
| | C) | the capacity to record both images and sounds |
| | D) | an intermittent mechanism such as those used in sewing machines |
|
|
2 | |
What was the main objective of Eadweard Muybridge and Étienne Jules Marey, who invented two major precursors of motion pictures? |
| | A) | to invent a successful novelty toy |
| | B) | to analyze the motion of animals such as horses and birds |
| | C) | to create a new kind of fairground attraction |
| | D) | to create a profitable new technology to sell to major industries |
|
|
3 | |
What was Thomas Edison's first cinematic invention called? |
| | A) | Kinetoscope |
| | B) | Bioscope |
| | C) | Black Maria |
| | D) | Mutoscope |
|
|
4 | |
Who were Max and Emil Skladanowsky? |
| | A) | inventors working in Thomas Edison's New Jersey laboratory |
| | B) | inventors of the Cinématographe |
| | C) | inventors who showed the first motion pictures screened in Europe |
| | D) | photographers who shot Workers Leaving the Factory |
|
|
5 | |
What was the significance of the Cinématographe? |
| | A) | it was the first motion picture camera ever used |
| | B) | it had a loop device to reduce reel tension that allowed for the production of films longer than three minutes |
| | C) | it functioned as a 35mm film camera, printer, and projector |
| | D) | it was a profitable peepshow device |
|
|
6 | |
Which of the following was not a typical subject for the earliest films? |
| | A) | brief comic fictional stories |
| | B) | travelogues |
| | C) | re-enacted historical events |
| | D) | adaptations of classic novels |
|
|
7 | |
Which early French filmmaker gained fame mainly for fantasy movies and trick films? |
| | A) | Lumière |
| | B) | Pathé |
| | C) | Zecca |
| | D) | Méliès |
|
|
8 | |
What sort of films did early British filmmakers specialize in? |
| | A) | trick films using innovative editing |
| | B) | science-fiction films |
| | C) | Passion Plays |
| | D) | chase films |
|
|
9 | |
What were the major American film production companies in the period 1898 to 1904? |
| | A) | Edison, American Mutoscope & Biograph, and American Vitagraph |
| | B) | Edison, Porter, and American Mutoscope & Biograph |
| | C) | Edison, Pathé, and American Mutoscope & Biograph |
| | D) | Pathé, American Mutoscope & Biograph, and American Vitagraph |
|
|
10 | |
Which of the following is most characteristic of the filmmaking of Edwin S. Porter? |
| | A) | the use of trick editing for special effects |
| | B) | the invention of film editing as we know it |
| | C) | the use of many shots to tell a fictional story |
| | D) | intercutting between different spaces |
|
2002 McGraw-Hill Higher Education