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Film History 1

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is not true about the film The Birth of a Nation?

a)

It was an epic film.

b)

It reenergized the KKK in America.

c)

It was directed by Edwin S. Porter.

d)

It introduced many innovations in filmmaking.

2.

What is most significant about the film, Fred Ott's Sneeze.

a)

It was the first film created by man.

b)

It was filmed in the United States.

c)

Thomas Edison copywrited it as the first film.

d)

The man's name in the film was Fred Ott.

3.

Soviet directors, Sergei Eisenstein and Dziga Vertov, were the first to use this type of editing.

a)

montage

b)

stop motion

c)

POV

d)

continuity

4.

Who was the first to project films for a viewing audience?

a)

Thomas Edison

b)

The Lumiere Brothers

c)

Edwin S. Porter

d)

D.W. Griffith

5.

Which film is self-reflexive, meaning it made the viewer aware that he is watching the film making process?

a)
b)
c)
d)
6.

Which film's settings inspired futuristic cities and laboratories featured in later films such as Frankenstein and Star Wars?

a)
b)
c)
d)
7.

Which photo is not taken from a German Expressionistic film?

a)
b)
c)
d)
8.

Which successful film was credited with being the first Western?

a)

The Great Train Robbery

b)

True Grit

c)

An Arrival of a Train at a Station

d)

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

9.

Which actor famously hanged from a clock on a tall building?

a)

Buster Keaton

b)

Charlie Chaplin

c)

D. W. Griffith

d)

Harold Lloyd

10.

Which actor created his famous character The Little Tramp?

a)

Buster Keaton

b)

Harold Lloyd

c)

Charlie Chaplin

d)

Al Jolson

11.

Which director is not from the German Expressionism genre of directing?

a)

D.W. Griffith

b)

F.W. Murnau

c)

Fritz Lang

d)

Robert Wiene

12.

What is not true of Sherlock Jr. (1924)?

a)

It was highly self-reflexive.

b)

It was written and directed by Charlie Chaplin.

c)

It compared movies with dreams.

d)

Buster Keaton performed all of his own stunts.