Film 2700 Final Exam

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Thomas Edison created a studio to shoot his earliest films. It was called

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Black Maria

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Actualities can be best described as

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snippets of every day life

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During early film exhibitions, what kind of control did the exhibitors have over films?

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vertical integration

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Edwin Porter's film Life of an American fireman revolutionized what part of the filmmaking process?

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Editing

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Nickelodeon's were

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cheap theatres

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Beginning his career as a magician, which filmmaker was known as the "magician of the cinema"

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Melies

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In film, close ups are said to have what effect?

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Emotional

Dramatic

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Mis En Scene includes

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Everything but sound

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What movie was the first ever to be screened at the white house?

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The Birth of a Nation

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Soviet Montage can be best described as

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juxtaposition of scenes being shot

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The Kuleshov Effect can be described as

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editing impacting the way you look at a scene

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How did disillusionment after World War 1 help shape German Expressionist films?

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people went to the movies more

had a distortion of reality

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Chiaroscuro is a technique used in both German Expressionist painting and films and can be defined

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play between light and shadows

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Genre can be best described as

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style or category of films

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How did continuity in scripts streamline the filmmaking process?

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it made it faster for movies to be filmed and edited

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The big 5 studios practiced vertical integration. This meant films controlled which part of the film making process

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exhibition

distribution

production

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How did sound increase the need for censorship

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it became very suggestive

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Why were camera blimps used?

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to block out the sound from the loud cameras

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Who established the Hays Office Codes

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The movies

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How might Mis En Scene contribute to the moral or immoral characteristics of a character

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things could be suggestive

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How many parts does classic hollywood film structure have?

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3

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How do you define a motivated edit

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edit that happens at the most logical point

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Hollywood films are said to suture the audience into the film, what does that mean?

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get lost in the film

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INR films often had radically different endings than classic hollywood films. How would you characterize the ending of an INR film?

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had open ended scenes

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where were the INR films shot?

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on location

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INR films relied on big name stars to make hollywood style films

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false

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what characteristics did French New Wave share with Italian Neo Realism?

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showing reality

rebels

lifes uncertainty

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How do you define camera pen?

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it's a film maker as an artist showing his own personal style

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What was the Cahiers Du Cinema?

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film reviewers

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Why can we describe French New Wave films as being self reflexive?

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FNW filmmakers had an acute awareness of the history of film

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Why can we call French New Wave Film makers rebels?

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focus on urban life, a new younger generation who did not follow the stuffy norms of their parents’ generation.

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How did New Wave Cinema turn filmmaking into art?

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began designing scratching and painting the film to get the desired effect.

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Why might we say that New Wave films depicted instability?

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distinctions between reality and an interior state of mind are not clear

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What characteristic did Cinema Novo share with Italian Neo Realism?

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political activism and did a lot for social and political change

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Why could we call cinema novo films desperate?

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reflected political, aesthetic, and ethical necessity.

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What was the relationship between fine artists and experimental film makers?

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they focuse on experimenting with using film to create new ways of seeing cinema and the role around them.

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Why can we say some experimental film makers were interested in the film strip as a canvas?

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filmmakers focused on shapes, light, colors, and arrangements to create new ways of seeing.

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How did small cameras change the documentary film making?

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people could be flies on the wall

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What as the purpose of "uncontrolled cinema"

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to capture everything as it unfolds

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Why did the hollywood studios start taking risks on low budget films?

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people had little expectation

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How would you define a youth pic?

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critique of old cultural norms, and it was meant to engage young audiences

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How did films like the graduate and the Easy Rider change movie theatre habits?

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it became more of a place to have fun

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What role did music play in films like graduate and easy rider

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made the sound-track album a source of profit.

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Why was it so shocking that the film Midnight Cowboy won an Academy Award for best picture?

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It was X-rated

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How do you define tent pole films

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entertainment journalists are able to report on big-budget tent pole movies in production or in the planning stages to generate interest and gossip for a film