Movies are Magic Film History Crash Course #1

What is the term used to describe a thin, flexible material coated in light-sensitive emulsion that retains an image after it’s exposed to light?

• Film

• Analog

• Digital video

• Photography

Who was the first to describe the Persistence of Vision, which is the phenomenon that keeps you from seeing the black spaces between the frames of a projected film?

• Louis Daguerre

• Peter Mark Roget

• Max Wertheimer

• Joseph Nicéphore Niépce

What is the optical illusion that lets you see a series of images in rapid succession as continuous motion?

• Zoetrope

• Camera Obscura

• Persistence of Vision

• Phi Phenomenon

What did Leland Stanford commission Eadweard Muybridge to capture photographic proof of?

• A moving train

• A horse at full gallop raising all four hooves off the ground

• A bird in flight

• A human athlete in action

Who invented the kinetograph, the world’s first motion picture film camera?

• Joseph Nicéphore Niépce

• Louis Daguerre

• W.K.L. Dickson

• Thomas Edison

What is the name of the French inventor who took the first known camera photograph?

• Étienne-Jules Marey

• Joseph Nicéphore Niépce

• Louis Daguerre

• Eadweard Muybridge

What did George Eastman invent as a way of taking pictures on paper, rather than metal or glass plates?

• Roll film

• Daguerreotype

• Kinetograph

• Photography

What did Joseph Nicéphore Niépce use to take the first known camera photograph?

• Daguerreotype

• Roll film

• Camera obscura

• Pewter plate

What did Louis Daguerre invent as the first commercially-available, mass-market means of taking photographs?

• Roll film

• Kinetograph

• Photography

• Daguerreotype

What did people use to isolate images of the world around them before the invention of photography?

• Stereoscope

• Zoetrope

• Stroboscope

• Camera obscura