TEST - CRASH COURSE FILM HISTORY 1-6

Which device is considered the world's first motion picture film camera?

• Kinetograph

• Zoopraxiscope

• Zootrope

• Kodak camera

Who is credited with inventing the first motion picture camera

• Thomas Edison and W.K.L Dickson

• Nicoli Tesla

• Alice Guy Blache

• George Eastman

A lightweight all-in-one motion picture device that recorded and played back video

• Cinematographe

• Kinetescope

• Kinetagraph

• Cinematographer

Who had the first commercially successful projected films

• Thomas Edison

• Nicoli Tesla

• The Lumiere Brothers

• George Castanza

What did Oskar Messter contribute to film

• Made the stop and go mechanism that we still use in projectors today

• Made a perfect video camera

• Improved the film script

• Bought all the video parlors

The Latham Loop was a better way to feed film tape through a projector than the original method

• True

• False

Where were the Lumiere Brothers from

• France

• England

• America

• Germany

What was the name for early films that lasted from 10 to 16 minutes long?

• shorts

• one-reelers

• featurettes

• short-viewings

A movie with a running time long enough to be considered a principal film with a running time of between 70 and 130 minutes is known as:

• a feature film

• a two reeler

• a long movie

• a docudrama

• a program

Which technique below is credit to D.W. Griffith who used the technique to increase the dramatic effect of the story?

• master shot

• close-up

• over-the-shoulder

• cutting on the action

• matching action