Crash Course Film History #10-12

True or False: Prior to synchronous sound, when dialogue was necessary, filmmakers would have actors would mouth the words and then insert title cards that the audience can read.

• True

• False

What early factors hindered synchronous sound in film?

• image and sound were played back using different devices

• microphone technology was primitive, microphones were too big to conceal

• sound recording required electricity, so productions were need to be larger and have more equipment

• all of these answers are true

W.K.L. Dickson was one of the first inventors to attempt synchronous sound with his device, the _______________

The device that helped convince big studios that "Talkies" could be a mainstream hit was called the _________________

Which movie made spoken dialogue a mainstream success?

• The Great Dictator

• The Jazz Singer

• Battleship Potemkin

• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

True or False: The Great Depression severely crippled the American film industry.

• True

• False

In the case, United States vs. Paramount Pictures, the government argues that major studios were in violation of ______________

• antitrust laws

• the Hayes Code

• tariffs levied on film exports

The first commercially successful method of filming in color by splitting light with a prism, was known as ________________

The Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences was responsible for standardizing the movie screen's ratio of its width to its height, more simply known as ________________

The lens that would record a wide image but squeezed it laterally, which would then be played back on projector with a similar lens to create a 2.55:1 aspect ratio:

• fish-eye lens

• anamorphic lens

• macro lens

• telephoto lense