Film Exam 2

Front 1

After the Bolsheviks gained power in Russia in late 1917, their first move regarding the Russian cinema was to:

Back 1

B) Create a new regulatory body to oversee the cinema.

Hint 1

Bolsheviks not powerful enough to nationalize the film industry.

Front 2

Surviving scenes from Lev Kuleshov's 1918 film, Engineer Prite's Project, suggest that:

Back 2

D) Kuleshov employed Hollywood-style continuity guidelines

Hint 2

Hollywood

Front 3

Most of the films produced under the auspices of the Soviet state in 1919 were:

Back 3

C) Short newsreels and propoganda films

Hint 3

Short

Front 4

With film stock extremely scarce in the Soviet Union during the War Communism years, the students in Lev Kuleshov's workshop at the State Film School prepared for future filmmaking efforts in each of the following ways, except:

Back 4

B) Writing elaborately detailed continuity scripts

Hint 4

Continuity

Front 5

The "Kuleshov effect" is based on the use of editing to:

Back 5

A) Lead the spectator to infer spatial or temporal continuity from the shots of separate elements

Hint 5

Lead

Front 6

Which European city was the main conduit for films going into and out of the Soviet Union duing the 1920s?

Back 6

D) Berlin

Hint 6

Germany

Front 7

In 1923, what was the percentage of films in Soviet distribution that were foreign-made?

Back 7

D) 99 percent

Hint 7

Almost all

Front 8

The first feature film completed by the members of the Kuleshov workshop was:

Back 8

A) The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks

Hint 8

Looooong ass Soviet title

Front 9

Sovkino, a distribution firm created by the Soviet government in 1925, was charged with the responsibility of opening new theaters in cities and sending portable projection outfits to the countryside. The company paid for these operations largely by:

Back 9

A) Importing and distributing foreign films

Hint 9

Foreign imports

Front 10

For the artist working within the movement of Constructivism, art was:

Back 10

B) Meant to fulfill a social function

Hint 10

Social

Front 11

The Constructivists often compared the work of art to a:

Back 11

B) Machine

Hint 11

Industrial

Front 12

In the stage productions of the influential Constructivist director Vsevolod Meyerhold, an actor's performance was supposed to be founded upon:

Back 12

A) Carefully controlled physical movements

Hint 12

Robot

Front 13

Which of the following is not true of the Montage film strike?

Back 13

D) It was made to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the Russian Revolution

Hint 13

Revolution

Front 14

Which Soviet director and therorist admired the succinct storytelling of American films and thought of Montage cheifly as techniques of editing for clarity and emotional effects?

Back 14

A) Lev Kuleshov

Hint 14

Kule

Front 15

According to Sergei Eisenstein's ideas on the "montage of attractions," a singleshot should be thought of as akin to:

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B) A cell, formed by the collision of two elements in opposition to each other

Hint 15

Biology

Front 16

The source of causes and effects in a Montage film narrative was often:

Back 16

C) Social forces

Hint 16

Society

Front 17

Using "overlapping editing" within a scene or sequence means that:

Back 17

D) The time a depicted action takes on the screen is noticeably expanding

Hint 17

Expanding

Front 18

In the hands of Soviet Montage filmmakers, very rapid cutting within a film often:

Back 18

B) Enhances the effect of explosive or violent action

Hint 18

Explosions

Front 19

In the plate-smashing scene from Potemkin, director Sergei Eisenstein creates acontradictory space by:

Back 19

A) Mismatching a character's position from shot to shot.

Hint 19

Mismatching

Front 20

In Soviet Montage filmmaking, intercutting was often used to:

Back 20

C) Link two actions for the sake of a thematic point

Hint 20

Together

Front 21

Which of the following was a common approach to lighting actors in Montagefilms?

Back 21

B) Character appears against black background; the front of the figure's face is darkwhile the sides are strongly lit.

Hint 21

Sides

Front 22

Montage films came under attack within the Soviet Union starting around 1927because:

Back 22

A) They were judged to be too formally sophisticated for the uneducated peasantpopulation.

Hint 22

Peasants

Front 23

Which of the following was not an objective set down for the Soviet film industryunder the First Five-Year Plan?

Back 23

B) To increase film exportation to non-western markets.

Hint 23

West or nah?

Front 24

The February Revolution (of 1917) had relatively little effect on the Russian filmindustry.

Back 24

A) True

Hint 24

Yes

Front 25

"Agit-vehicles" were films designed to ease the stars of pre-Revolution Russiancinema into roles in films that championed Bolshevik principles.

Back 25

B) False

Hint 25

This may or may not be wrong.

Front 26

Lenin's New Economic Policy, implemented in 1921, called for the limited andtemporary reintroduction of private ownership and capitalist-style dealings.

Back 26

A) True

Hint 26

Yaaaassss

Front 27

After the Bolshevik Revolution, most Russian artists supported the newgovernment.

Back 27

A) True

Hint 27

Aw Yisss

Front 28

Most non-Montage Soviet films of the silent period tended to be topical comediesor conventional literary adaptations.

Back 28

A) True

Hint 28

Yep

Front 29

Because of the primacy of editing in the art of Soviet Montage cinema, Montagedirectors paid little attention to the camera and rarely experimented with unconventionalframings and angles.

Back 29

B) False

Hint 29

What is this???

Front 30

Of the French Impressionist, German Expressionist and Soviet Montage styles,only the Soviet Montage style lasted into the sound era.

Back 30

A) True

Hint 30

MHMMMM

Front 31

Warner Bros. initially considered converting to sound production as a way to:

Back 31

D) Create a cost-cutting substitute for live entertainment on film programs.

Hint 31

Save

Front 32

Don Juan, the feature on the program at the first public Vitaphone screening inAugust 1926, had:

Back 32

B) Recorded music but no dialogue.

Hint 32

Musiiiic

Front 33

Which studio, having lost out to Warner Bros. on signing big-name theatrical talent,exploited sound technology via newsreels?

Back 33

B) Fox

Hint 33

News

Front 34

In the early 1930s, many American films were released in both sound and silentversions because:

Back 34

D) Many small movie theaters could not afford to buy sound equipment, especiallywith the onset of the Great Depression.

Hint 34

Cheaper

Front 35

If music was to be heard during a scene in a very early sound film:

Back 35

C) The instruments had to play near the set as the scene was filmed

Front 36

Because the microphones for early sound recording were insensitive, studios ofteninsisted that:

Back 36

B) Actors take diction lessons and speak slowly and distinctly.

Front 37

By 1929, many film producers decided that the best way to preserve foreign marketsand the best solution to the problems caused by the language barrier was to:

Back 37

A) Reshoot additional versions of each film, with the actors speaking different

Front 38

For several years starting in 1929, Paramount turned out dozens of films in as manyas fourteen languages at their studio in:

Back 38

C) France

Front 39

The largest producing companies in Hollywood acted in concert during theconversion to sound because, since each firm's theaters had to show other companies'films, the lack of a common standard would hurt business.

Back 39

A) True

Front 40

Multi-camera shooting evolved because it was technically easier to observe the rulesof the continuity editing system than to shoot all the action of a scene in a lengthy takewith a single camera.

Back 40

B) False

Front 41

In the years immediately following the transition to sound moviemaking, Americanfilmmakers avoided the constraints of multi-camera shooting by filming much of thefootage silent and dubbing in sound later.

Back 41

B) False

Front 42

The most successful early sound films on the domestic German market weremusicals.

Back 42

A) True

Front 43

Which of the following companies was not one of the Little Three?

Back 43

B) Fox

Front 44

Paramount declared bankruptcy in 1933 because of money owed on:

Back 44

D) The mortgages of its theaters

Front 45

Which of the following statements is not true about Warner Bros. during the 1930s?

Back 45

A) It was known for its European-style productions, many of which were directed byEuropean émigrés.

Front 46

Which firm stayed afloat in the late 1930s due to its distribution of Walt Disney'sanimated films?

Back 46

A) RKO

Front 47

From 1930 to 1945, United Artists was known for specializing in all of thefollowing types of films except:

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B) 'B' Westerns

Front 48

Which of the following statements is not true of Yiddish filmmaking during the1930s?

Back 48

C) The most successful Yiddish films were distributed by Big Five companies.