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Film History (Movies are Magic): Quiz

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 3600secs

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Class
Date
1.

What term was first used to describe a the specific technology of a thin, flexible material coated in light-sensitive emulsion that retains an image after it's exposed to light?

a)

film

b)

picture

c)

cartridge

d)

camera

2.

the term "film" refers to a movie, and also the process of recording a movie

a)

True

b)

False

3.

What is an analog substitute for the original film technology

a)

VHS

b)

CD

c)

DVD

d)

Streaming

4.

this started out as a collection of still images viewed one after another in rapid succession, which creates the illusion of motion

a)

Film

b)

Camera

c)

VHS

d)

CD-ROM

5.

Who was the first person to describe the illusion of film

a)

Peter Mark Roget

b)

Huckleberry Finn

c)

Mark Twain

d)

Thomas Jefferson

6.

What is referred to as a "frame" in this video?

a)

a still image of a movie

b)

something to put a picture in

c)

something you knock down with a bowling ball

d)

a film

7.

The optical illusion that lets you see a series of images in rapid succession as continuous motion

a)

Phi Phenomenon

b)

Phantom of the Opera

c)

Phil Phenomenon

d)

Phantom Phenomenon

8.

What was the major precursor to film?

a)

Photography

b)

Styleascope

c)

Cave Drawings

d)

Greek Theater

9.

A box, tent, or room with a lens or pinhole in one end, and a reflective surface like a mirror at the other

a)

Camera Obscura

b)

Camera

c)

Film

d)

Diatone

10.

When was the first known photograph taken?

a)

1920s

b)

1820s

c)

1720s

d)

1620s

11.

This was the world's first motion picture film camera

a)

The Grammaphone

b)

The Kinetograph

c)

The VCR

d)

Panovision Camera

12.

Who is credited with inventing the first motion picture camera

a)

Thomas Edison and W.K.L Dickson

b)

Nicoli Tesla

c)

Mark Twain

d)

Tom Hardy