
Documentary Notes What is a documentary? VanderVeen 2024
Authored by Thomas VanderVeen
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12th Grade

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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is a documentary?
A. A fictional story created for entertainment
B. A film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event
C. A live performance of a play
D. A book about historical figures
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What were the earliest documentaries in the U.S. and France characterized by?
Elaborate story-telling and staging
Being lengthy feature films
Creative narrative and fictional elements
Being short newsreels, instructional pictures, or records of current events without creative story-telling
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Who were among the first to attempt film-making that can be categorized as documentaries?
The Coen Brothers
The Warner Brothers
The Lumiere Brothers
The Wright Brothers
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What term is used to describe the earliest forms of documentaries that were without any creative story-telling, narrative, or staging?
Biopics
Actualities
Melodramas
Epics
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Documentary Films are considered to be:
Fictional works of art
Non-fictional 'slice of life' factual works of art
Purely entertainment-based films
Adaptations of novels
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is another term for the style of documentary film-making that is concerned with depicting the everyday lives of people?
Film noir
Cinema verite
Romantic comedy
Science fiction
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What were movie theaters expected to show in the days before television according to the text?
Only feature films
Only live entertainment
A wide range of diversions including live entertainment as well as movies
Only documentaries
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