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The Introduction of Sound
Multiple Choice
1
What was the name of Warner Bros.'s sound process, used to make short films of speeches and performances in the 1920s?
A)
Photophone
B)
Vitaphone
C)
Movietone
D)
Phonofilm
2
Why were the largest Hollywood studios cautious about adopting sound film-making?
A)
They were skeptical about whether sound technology would work
B)
They were skeptical about whether the public would pay more to see sound films
C)
They needed to ensure that there would be a single common technology for all producers and theaters so that the major studios could continue to book each other's films in their theaters
D)
They considered sound technology too expensive
3
What new vertically integrated Hollywood studio came into existence as a result of the coming of sound?
A)
Warner Bros.
B)
RKO
C)
Fox
D)
RCA
4
Which of the following was not a stylistic consequence of the coming of sound?
A)
multiple camera shooting
B)
more reframing (panning) camera movements
C)
the "Academy ratio"
D)
less emphasis on continuity editing
5
What important Hollywood genre owed its existence to the coming of sound?
A)
the gangster film
B)
the musical
C)
the western
D)
adaptations of famous plays
6
Which of the following characterizes the relationship between American and German film companies in terms of their stance on the adoption of sound technology?
A)
American firms dominated the international film industry and managed to keep German firms out of the market entirely despite a series of lawsuits brought by the Germans for patent infringement
B)
German firms battled Hollywood for control of their own market and eventually won, though the Americans gained control over the rest of the world's sound film distribution
C)
After a lengthy dispute, the German and American film industries agreed to an international cartel that would divide up the world market
D)
none of the above
7
What early German sound film was innovative in its use of the new technology by creating sound bridges and parallelisms between different characters and by using a sound motif as a key narrative device?
A)
Fritz Lang's
M
B)
G.W. Pabstís
Westfront 1918
C)
Max Ophüls's
Libelei
D)
Leontine Sagan's
Mädchen in Uniform
8
What was the Soviet Montage movement's stance on sound filmmaking?
A)
they resisted it, fearing that static, dialogue-ridden scripts would ruin the artistic qualities achieved by silent cinema
B)
they believed sound was fine for dramas of high culture but insisted on maintaining their silent film aesthetic
C)
they welcomed sound as a way of creating juxtapositions to affect audiences more powerfully
D)
none of the above
9
Which French director pioneered imaginative uses of sound by creating sonic puns, surprising the audience with "wrong" sounds, and by using music extensively?
A)
Jean Grémillon
B)
Jean Renoir
C)
René Clair
D)
Léon Gaumont
10
Why was Japan slow to adopt sound filmmaking?
A)
Depression-related financial difficulties made the expense difficult for smaller production firms
B)
rural theaters were slow to wire for sound
C)
the
benshi
resisted the technology that would put them out of their jobs
D)
all of the above
11
Which of the following was
not
one way the film industry attempted to cross the "language barrier" introduced with sound filmmaking?
A)
shooting multiple versions of the same film in different languages
B)
dubbing the actors' voices
C)
showing films in foreign countries without dubbing or subtitling
D)
avoiding exporting films altogether and concentrating instead on the domestic market
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