A History of Film Editing

_____ invented the Kinetoscope and established Kinetoscope parlors. These contained many Kinetoscope machines, each one screening a different movie clip.

• Albert Einstein

• Thomas Edison

• Charlie Chaplin

• The Wright Brothers

D.W. Griffith essentially formed the foundation of

• tableau-centric, scene-based models

• color correcting frames of film

• incorporating sound into films

• continuity editing

Montage theory was the notion that _____ constitutes the force of a film.

• acting and extended monologues

• tableau staging

• the content of the shot alone

• the editing of shots

The 1927 film, _____, is credited as the first feature film containing synced dialogue.

• The Lights of New York

• The Jazz Singer

• The Birth of a Nation

• Sunrise

The motion picture was born in the _____.

• late 1800s

• early 1800s

• late 1700s

• early 1900s

1839, when the Daguerreotype process commercially introduced, is generally recognized as the birth of still photography.

• True

• False

Most early silent films were based on little-known, unpopular stories, which piqued the interest of audiences.

• True

• False

_____ was a revolutionary editing technique that was introduced in the early 1900s.

• Films constructed with single shots strung together one after another in a collection of scenes

• Showing the same action from multiple angles or perspectives in a scene with intercut shots

• Capturing everyday events

• Film projection in a public space

Adding color to early films was achieved by hand-painting each and every frame of a film.

• True

• False

All of the following were difficulties related to incorporating sound into films, except:

• couldn't capture high-quality audio

• couldn't create music that was lively enough to match the action of the film

• couldn't accurately sync sound to picture

• couldn't project audio well