History of Film

In 1877 Thomas Edison invented the

• Camera

• Phonograph

• Telephone

• Electric

The Kinetoscopes’ film strips were common sideshow entertainment, examples could be...

• Wrestling matches

• Boxing cats

• Trapeze acts

• All of The Above

The first motion picture camera was called a

• Telegraph

• Kinetograph

• Kinetoscope

• Telescope

The Cinematographe was invented by the Lumiere Brothers from?

• Italy

• France

• Germany

• Switzerland

In 1902, the U.S. opened it’s first cinema in downtown ?

• Detriot

• New York

• Canada

• Los Angeles

Early Silent Films were only , how many minutes long?

• 30-40

• 12-15

• 10

• 60

During Silent films there was either piano playing, musicians, dialogue delivered by actors or full-scale orchestras?

• False

• True

American filmmaker, D.W. Griffith, created a 12-reel film during the American Civil War titled The Birth of a Nation, in 1915.

• True

• False

The first feature-length talkie and first musical is...

• 1920, The Jazz Singer

• 1927, The Jazz Singer

• 1930, The Jazz Singer

• 1940, The Jazz Singer

In 1932, the development of a new 3-color camera,__________________ , would make a major impact.

• Technicolor

• Vitacolor

• Phonocolor

• Chromacolor