Film History 1

What is not true about the film The Birth of a Nation?

• It was an epic film.

• It reenergized the KKK in America.

• It was directed by Edwin S. Porter.

• It introduced many innovations in filmmaking.

What is most significant about the film, Fred Ott's Sneeze.

• It was the first film created by man.

• It was filmed in the United States.

• Thomas Edison copywrited it as the first film.

• The man's name in the film was Fred Ott.

Soviet directors, Sergei Eisenstein and Dziga Vertov, were the first to use this type of editing.

• montage

• stop motion

• POV

• continuity

Who was the first to project films for a viewing audience?

• Thomas Edison

• The Lumiere Brothers

• Edwin S. Porter

• D.W. Griffith

Which film is self-reflexive, meaning it made the viewer aware that he is watching the film making process?

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Which film's settings inspired futuristic cities and laboratories featured in later films such as Frankenstein and Star Wars?

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Which photo is not taken from a German Expressionistic film?

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Which successful film was credited with being the first Western?

• The Great Train Robbery

• True Grit

• An Arrival of a Train at a Station

• The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Which actor famously hanged from a clock on a tall building?

• Buster Keaton

• Charlie Chaplin

• D. W. Griffith

• Harold Lloyd

Which actor created his famous character The Little Tramp?

• Buster Keaton

• Harold Lloyd

• Charlie Chaplin

• Al Jolson