History of Film, Set 2 First Movie Camera

This is the name of the engineer working with Thomas Edison to invent the motion picture camera

• W.K.L. Dickson

• A.B.C. Dickson

• George Eastman

• William Chevrolet

• W.C. Fields

Which below is the name of the first motion picture camerq?

• Kinetograph

• Photograph

Thomas Edison was the first to realize the huge potential for showing motion pictures on a big screen to a large audience.

• True

• False

Who did Thomas Edison go to in order to have rolls of light-sensitive film strips produced for his new camera?

• George Eastman

• Betsy Devos

• Jane Fonda

• Bobby Shutterfly

The holes along the edge of a film strip are called

• sprocket holes

• rabbit holes

• film sockets

• frame guides

What is this image demonstrating?

• How a film strip moves through an early motion picture camera

• How sprockets from bicycles were used to move film through an early Edison Kinetiscope.

Given the limitation of early film strips, how long could the first motion pictures run at one time to one person viewing the movie?

• 16 seconds

• 16 minutes

• 1 hour

• 6 hours

What is amazing about the Kinetiscope is that Edison also figured out how to capture sound at the same time.

• True

• Very False

What is the image showing?

• Demonstrating how early movies were viewed by the public.

• How the Kinetiscope changed life in America.

• An example of not practicing safe social distance.

• Early form of the Internet and distance learning.

Edison also built the first film studio in America

• True

• False