1.2.Foundations of the Cinema and Animation Industry (1907-1915)

By what term are early cinema defined?

• Cinema of attractions
• Primitive cinema
• Silent cinema
• Magic Lantern Cinema

Which Spanish filmmaker from the silent period created the animated pixilation technique in "Hotel Eléctrico"?

• Segundo de Chomón
• Luis Buñuel
• Florián Rey
• Chiquito de la Calzada

What happened to early filmmakers who used animation?

• They were not conscious of being so.
• They were in serious danger of material poisoning.
• They were hardly successful.
• They burned them for witchcraft.

What are Nickelodeon?

• The first cinemas in the United States
• The first television channel dedicated to animation to appear in the silent era.
• The founding company of Hollywood
• An optical toy

What were Gaumont and Pathe?

• Two of the most successful French production companies in the first decades of the cinema
• The brothers who invented the Bioscope camera
• Two of the first film stars
• A very successful title in 1907

What principle conditions the stylistic transformation that takes place in cinema between 1907 and 1915?

• The quest for narrative clarity
• Scandalising viewers
• The exploration of film technique
• Having a good time

Who is the director of "The Birth of a Nation" and "Intolerance"?

• David Wark Griffith
• Louis Lumiere
• Émile Cohl
• Georges Méliès

Who is the animator of "Gertie the Dinosaur"?

• Winsor McCay
• Walt Disney
• Ladislav Starevich
• Émile Cohl