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 (a)  

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

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 (a)  

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 (a)  

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