Origins and History of film

What year was the zoetrope made?

• 1824

• 1843

• 1876

• 1834

how did the zoetrope work?

• looking through the slots and then turn the drums and then the pictures appeared to move

• shining light through the lens it makes a projector

• a lantern is connected it could be used as a projector

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