Silent Film review

How can movement help an audience understand the story?

• It shows emotion

• It creates a mood

• It pushes the plot along

• All of the above

The term for "tricking" the eye into seeing motion is called:

• Peripheral Vision

• Blurry Vision

• Double Vision

• Persistence of Vision

Movie theaters, streaming services and Blu-Ray discs are examples of

• The studio system

• Movie distributors

• Movie exhibition

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 Lumiere Brothers were...

• The first film directors in history

• The inventors of photography

• Famous astronauts

• The inventors of penicillin

Which silent film star was nicknamed "Stoneface" for a deadpan reaction comedy style?

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What Civil War picture has become renowned as the first feature-length film? And also incredibly racist.

• War of the Worlds

• Birth of a Nation

• Revolution

• Wings

The movie industry moved from New Jersey to Hollywood to escape this person's lawsuits.

• Thomas Edison

• Charlie Chaplin

• Mary Pickford

• Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle

Where did the American film industry start?

• Hollywood
• San Francisco
• New Jersey
• San Diego