Early Film

What scientific principle produces the illusion of movement in motion pictures?

• Magic lantern

• Optical toy

• Persistence of vision

• Photographic motion

Who hired Eadweard Muybridge to settle a bet about a running horse and the unsupported transit theory?

• Thomas Edison

• Bruce Kawin

• Auguste Lumière

• Leland Stanford

What device did Eadweard Muybridge invent in 1879 to demonstrate his photograpic studies of motion?

• Zoopraxiscope

• Kinetoscope

• Fusil Photographique

• Cinématographe

Who developed the fusil photographique camera (chronophotographic gun) to capture movement?

• Eadweard Muybridge

• Étienne-Jules Marey

• Louis Lumière

• Thomas Edison

Parlors allowed spectators to view the Kinetoscope films of which inventor?

• Thomas Edison

• Louis Lumière

• Auguste Lumière

• Eadweard Muybridge

What was the first successful film projector in the U.S.?

• Cinématographe

• Kinetograph

• Kinetoscope

• Vitascope

The Cinématographe invented by Louis Lumière allowed for?

• Taking pictures in a studio

• Capturing, processing, and projecting films

• Showing movies to a single viewer

• Recording lengthier animations