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Leftist, Documentary, and Experimental Cinema, 1930-1945
Multiple Choice
1
What quasi-documentary film made by members of the New York Film and Photo League and released in 1942 dramatized the conflict between the working class and forces of capitalism?
A)
Pie in the Sky
B)
Native Land
C)
The Four Hundred Million
D)
Filmfront
2
What leftist German playwright scripted
Kuhle Wampe
, a 1932 political film about social issues such as unemployment?
A)
Slatan Dudow
B)
Hanns Eisler
C)
Bertolt Brecht
D)
Joris Ivens
3
What technology was key to the development of political cinema in the 1930s, especially in Britain?
A)
lightweight camera dollies
B)
16mm equipment
C)
multi-track sound recording
D)
unidirectional microphones
4
What major political situation was the subject of several important leftist documentaries in the 1930s?
A)
the Spanish Civil War
B)
the rise of Nazism
C)
the Chinese Civil War
D)
both A and C
5
Who financed Pare Lorentz's depression-era documentaries
The Plow that Broke the Plains
and
The River
?
A)
leftist film club members
B)
Paramount
C)
the U.S. government
D)
the manager of New York's Rialto Thater
6
What sort of films did British documentarist John Grierson make?
A)
films critical of the British government's policies regarding immigration, housing, and unemployment
B)
films about the Spanish Civil War
C)
poetic or dramatic films about industrial subjects such as an overnight train, the fishing industry, and the tea trade in Ceylon
D)
city symphony films
7
Who directed the 1934 documentary
Man of Aran
, shot in the islands off the west coast of Ireland?
A)
Joris Ivens
B)
Robert Flaherty
C)
John Grierson
D)
Basil Wright
8
Which Hollywood director made a series of propaganda films used in training the American forces for World War II called "Why We Fight"?
A)
John Ford
B)
William Wyler
C)
John Huston
D)
Frank Capra
9
Which British director made a series of wartime documentaries using innovative sound techniques and restaging events to create authentic impressions of the war experience of ordinary citizens?
A)
John Grierson
B)
Humphrey Jennings
C)
E.M. Forster
D)
Harry Watt
10
Which of the following describes Joseph Cornell's surrealistic 1936 film
Rose Hobart
?
A)
a compilation of footage from a Hollywood film reedited to create repetitions of gestures and false eyeline matches
B)
a documentary about an isolated area of Spain
C)
the poetic story of an artist whose statue comes to life
D)
a poetic documentary influenced by the city symphony genre
11
What kind of films did Alexandre Alexeïeff and Claire Parker, Oskar Fischinger, and Len Lye make in the 1930s?
A)
surrealistic documentaries
B)
experimental animated films
C)
poetic documentaries
D)
experimental short fiction films
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