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Anticlimax |
This is where the film seems to come to a climax only to let the audience down |
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Character actor |
not the stars, but are easily recognized and generally play smaller roles from film to film |
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Cinematographer |
Also known as director of photography or dp. This person is in charge of the camera and lighting teams. this person establishes "the look" of the film. |
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Close-up |
A head and shoulders shot |
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Continuity |
The transition from one shot to another in which the story continues in an orderly and generally logical manner. |
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Crane shot |
The camera is mounted on a long arm and can be moved up or down. |
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Cross-cutting |
Editing from one scene to another, back and forth several times. |
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Cutaway |
A shot that cuts away from the main action in a scene. A shot that relates and adds impact or additional info to the scene |
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Day for night |
By underexposing the film or video and using filters, a camera person can make daytime appear to be night. |
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Day player |
actors who are hired only for a single day in a movie |
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Dubbing |
Also known as Automatic Dialogue Replacement or ADR. the recording of dialogue in a sound studio after the footage is shot. The actors watch the fill and match the lip movements. |
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Dutch tilt |
A composition with the camera viewing the scene at a diagonal. |
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Dynamic cutting |
Scenes that are juxtaposed in a manner to break up the normal continuity and to create heightened action. |
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Establishing shot |
A shot that establishes the location or surroundings of the main action in a scene. |
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Fade |
A shot where the image gradually fades to black, "Fade Out". Or a shot starting out black that gradually becomes the proper brightness, "Fade In." |
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Follow focus |
A shot where the subject moved, but the focus changes with the subjects movement. |
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Insert shot |
Cutting away from a master shot to a scene showing greater detail or information. |
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Jump Cut |
Leaving the continuity of a scene to insert a shot that seemingly has no relevance. |
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Key Light |
The main and most powerful light source to illuminate the subject. |
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Magic Hour |
The time just before sunrise or sunset when the sun's glow gives off a golden color. Cinematographers film during this time of day to add beauty to a scene. |
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Master shot |
A wide shot that establishes the scene, it incorporates all the action from beginning to end. From this scene, the editor can edit medium, close-up, or long shots. |
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Mismatch continuity |
Scenes that do not edit smoothly together, e.g., person is wearing a hat and suddenly the next shot shows the same person without the hat. |
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Motif |
Something that keeps reappearing in a film, it can be the look, music, or dialogue. |
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Objective camera |
Camera work that has little impact on the viewer in terms of technique or style. A documentary style of camera work. |
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Over the shoulder |
A camera shot usually seen during a conversation in a film. Shot over one actor's shoulder while seeing the other actor's face and listening to the conversation. |
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Pan |
A horizontal camera movement. |
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Parallel editing |
The technique of intercutting between two simultaneous stories or scenes. |
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P.O.V. shot |
The camera is used to show what an actor sees as though you were looking through their eyes or point-of-view. Can also be called a "subjective camera." |
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Rack focus |
Changing the focus from one area in the scene to another. |
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Reveal shot |
A scene in which the camera moved to reveal new information. |
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Rough Cut |
A fill with all the scenes edited together in order but not time to length or quality. |
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Screen direction |
When an actor moves from right to left or left to right in the frame of film on the screen. |
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Segue |
This is a sound dissolve, when the out-going sound fades out, while the new sound fades in. There is a time when you can hear both sounds. |
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Sequence |
A series of scenes edited together to form a coherent event. |
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Scenario |
An outline for a screenplay that gives a general idea of the plot and characters. |
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Story line |
An outline of major events in a film. |
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Straight man |
Actor in a film who sets up a comedian so they can deliver the punch-line. |
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Subtext |
When events take place beneath the obvious or an underlying meaning. |
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Swish pan |
Moving a camera from side to side very fast. Used as a transitional effect between scenes in some styles of film. |
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Take |
A single shot of a scene is called a take. Multiple versions of the same shot are called takes. |
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Tag |
After the conclusion of the story there is an additional scene that possibly adds more information. |
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Tilt |
Vertical camera movement |
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Truck shot |
A camera is mounted and on a moving vehicle (usually a specialized truck) to get fast moving shots. |
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Wide angle |
A camera shot that shows a wide field of view. |
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Wipe |
A popular effect at one time to transition from one scene to another in which the new scene appears to push the previous scene off the screen. |
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How long did it take for Margaret Mitchell to write gone with the wind? |
Over ten years |
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When did Margaret Mitchell receive a Pulitzer Prize for writing gone with the wind? |
1937 |
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How many actresses interviewed for the role of Scarlett o'hara? |
1,400 |
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When did David O. Selznick sign Vivien Leigh to play Scarlett o'hara? |
January 16, 1939 |
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When did David O. Selznick meet Vivien Leigh? |
December 15, 1938 |
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When did a film critic write that a film in color over 3 hours was hard on the eyes? |
1939 |
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What is the all time top grossing film? |
Gone with the wind |
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Who was David O. Selznick's father-in-law? |
Louis B. Mayer |
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Who produced Gone with the Wind? |
David O. Selznick |
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How much was paid for the movie rights to gwtw? |
$50,000 |
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Who was the first director on gwtw? |
George cukor |
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Who played scarlet o'hara in gwtw? |
Vivien leigh |
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How many years after purchasing the book did principle photography finally begin? |
2.5 years |
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Who was brought in to replace the first director? |
Victor fleming |
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What film was the replacement director taken off in order to direct gwtw? |
Wizard of oz |
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How much did Vivien Leigh work out of the 125 shooting days of gwtw? |
95% |
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Who was the director that walked off the production of gwtw only to return two weeks later? |
Victor fleming |
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What was the total cost of gwtw? |
$3.9 million |
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Gwtw received how many academy awards? |
8 |
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What did Rhett Butler pay $150 for at the auction? |
Dance with Scarlett O'Hara |
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For three days the people of Atlanta waited for news of a battle in Pennsylvania that would help determine the outcome of the war. What was the name of that battle? |
Gettysburg |
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When Scarlett returned to Twelve Oaks from Atlanta, what condition did she find it in? |
She found it in ruins |
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How did the Yankees treat Tara when they used it as a temporary headquarters? |
They stole and burned everything |
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Besides the north, along with the defeat of the south came another invader, the ____________. |
Carpetbagger |
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What did the Northerners expect from African-Americans in return for their gift of 40 acres and a mule? |
Votes |
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What did Scarlett do in order to get $300 to pay Tara's taxes? |
She married Frank Kennedy |
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The name of Scarlett's baby was? |
Bonnie Blue Butler |
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What caused Scarlett to lose her second pregnancy? |
She fell down the stairs |
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What caused the death of Scarlett's daughter? |
An accident riding a horse |
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Made Broadway debut and married Virginia Nicholson |
Age 19 |
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Formed the Mercury Players with John Houseman |
Age 22 |
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Formed "The Mercury Theater On the Air" |
Age 23 |
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Performed H.G. Wells' The War of the World's (1938) on Radio |
Age 23 |
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Directed Citizen Kane |
Age 25 |
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When was Citizen Kane released? |
1941 |
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Who was Greg Toland? |
He was the best director of photography in Hollywood and he worked on citizen kane |
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Who was Herman Mankiewicz? |
The writer for Citizen Kane |
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Chiarascuro |
This Italian term refers to a lighting technique where the use of bright and dark images are arranged in pictorial composition |
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Deep focus |
A style of motion picture photography that has great depth of field and brings all plains of the image-foreground, middle ground, and background into sharp focus |
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Mise-en-scene |
A French term meaning to dress a set. In this style of film-making the director has the actors perform the entire scene without editing. |
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Orson Welles was turning _______ into spectacle, a pop thriller set in Haiti. |
Macbeth |
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What did Hearst do to Pulitzer's newspaper staff? |
He bribed them to work for him |
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Welles saved his most savage portrayal for the woman who shared ________ life. |
Hearst's |
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The collision between Hearst and Orson Welles' the battle over Citizen Kane was in large part over the honor of his _____. |
woman |
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______________ assembled his fellow studio chiefs, in their name he offered $800,000 to buy the negative of Citizen Kane for the express purpose of burning it. |
Louis B. Mayer |
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No Hearst newspaper ever published a review, no Hearst newspaper ever published an ad for _____________. |
Citizen Kane |
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Deep focus |
Mrs. Kane signing Charlie off to Mr. Thatcher |
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Chiaroscuro lighting |
After the newsreel in the theater |
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Low camera angles |
"you want love on your own terms" scene |
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Mise-en-scene |
Scene with Charles signing documents with Mr. Thatcher |
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Which five individuals retell the story of Charles Foster Kane? |
Susan, Walter, Mr. Bernstein, Jedediah, and Raymond |
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What was the symbolism of "Rosebud" in Citizen Kane? |
Lose childhood |
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Charles Foster Kane's dying word was? |
Rosebud |
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When Susan Alexander considered herself a failure, what action did she take? |
Attempted suicide by sedative overdose |
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What was the actual object Rosebud? |
A sled |
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Un Chien Andalou (Dir. Luis Bunuel/Salvador Dali) |
1929 |
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Open City (started Neorealism/ dir. Roberto Rossellini) |
1945 |
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The Bicycle Thief (Dir. Vittorio De Sica) |
1948 |
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Amelie (Dir. Jean-Pietre Jeunet) |
2001 |
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Amelie leaves home and gets a job as a ________ in a Montmartre cafe. |
waitress |
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What does Amelie like to do at the movies? |
Look back at people's faces in the dark |
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What does Amelie find hidden inside her wall? |
A box hidden by a boy |
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What was the object Amelie takes from her father's yard? |
The lawn gnome |
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At the end we see Amelie and her lover _____________. |
riding a bike |
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Thirty-seven states had their own censorship rules |
1921 |
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Fatty Arbuckle charged with rape and murder |
1921 |
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Will Hays hired to "clean up" Hollywood image |
1922 |
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What two things was Will Hays before he created the PCA? |
A Presbyterian elder And postmaster general |
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Will Hays creates the Production Code Administration (PCA) |
1930 |
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Joe Breen named director of the PCA - Strict enforcement begins |
1933 |
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King Kong becomes one of the most censored film of the 1930s |
1933 |
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The miracle decision (film comes under 1st & 14th amendments) |
1953 |
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Bonnie & Clyde caused Congress to consider censorship |
1967 |
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Jack Valenti creates the film ratings' board |
1968 |
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Most banned film? |
Birth of a Nation |
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Who was Benjamin's father's business partner's wife? |
Mrs. Robinson |
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What was Benjamin so worried about upon arriving home from college? |
His future |
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What does Mrs. Robinson say to provoke Ben into having sex with her? |
That it was his first time and he was inadequate |
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Hollywood union strikes |
1945/6 |
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House un-american activities committee - Congress holds hearings |
1947 |
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Hollywood ten (unfriendly witnesses are sent to prison by Congress) |
1947 |
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12% of films shot in color |
1947 |
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Development of 3-D films |
1950s |
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Cinemascope (Wide screen) was first introduced |
1953 |
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Many picture Palaces equaled the ornate and beautiful ______________________ halls of the 19th century. |
opera houses & concert |
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Three forces collided in the Hollywood strike of 1945/6 |
IA CSU Producers |
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______________ is the highest paid executive in the nation in 1945. His earnings averaged $20,000 a week. |
Louis B. Mayer |
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The men and women behind the scenes who make movie magic made an average of ___ a week |
$70 |
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By the 40s, the dominant union in the movie industry crafts is the __. |
IA |
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Walt Disney was still paying some of those girls (cartoonists) ___ a week. |
$20 |
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In 1941, Disney workers received union recognition. Disney reacted by _______________. |
Firing strikers |
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______ became a driving force in persuading the actors to oppose the strike. (Thus breaking the CSU strike) |
Reagan |
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Ronald Reagan's efforts do not go unnoticed by the FBI agents, they ask him to become an ____________________ on communists, in Hollywood. |
undercover informant |
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Blackmail which started out as a silent film eventually turned into Hitchcock's first _____ film. |
sound |
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Hitchcock was able to achieve his richest and most _________ works right here (Hollywood). |
rewarding |
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Hitchcock could exploit our worst fears, he did it better than any _________ before or since. |
directors |
