Cinema history in one minute

Who invented the kinetoscope in 1891?

• Walt Whitman

• Thomas Edison

• Walt Disney
• George Eastman

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Who invented cinema?

• Thomas Edison

• Lumière brothers

• George Méliès

• Steven Spielberg

In what year cinema was invented?

• 1895

• 1905

• 1885

• 1875

What is the name of the first movie by the Lumière brothers?

• A trip to the moon

• The Arrival of a train

• The war of the worlds

• Workers leaving the Lumière factory

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Where did the first public movie screening take place?

• Paris

• New York

• London

• Lyon

Why were the first movies silent?

• The technology wasn't advanced enough

• The audience preferred watching movies without sound

• Silent movies were cheaper than talking movies

• The first movies had sound but it was too quiet to hear

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What was the title of the first movie to include audio?

• A Star is Born
• The Jazz Singer
• The Soprano

• The Singing Fool

During the Golden Age, what studio dominated the cinema industry?

• 20th Century Fox
• MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)
• Paramount Pictures
• Pathé

Choose the correct definition of "blockbuster"

• A successful and popular film

• Old stores where you could rent a movie

• A film showing the communist block

• A film where houses are being destroyed

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Find the only blockbuster in the propositions:

• Chicken run

• Super Mario Bros, the movie

• Godzilla VS Kong

• Star Wars