WorksheetsFilm History 1
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 6mins
What is not true about the film The Birth of a Nation?
It was an epic film.
It reenergized the KKK in America.
It was directed by Edwin S. Porter.
It introduced many innovations in filmmaking.
What is most significant about the film, Fred Ott's Sneeze.
It was the first film created by man.
It was filmed in the United States.
Thomas Edison copywrited it as the first film.
The man's name in the film was Fred Ott.
Soviet directors, Sergei Eisenstein and Dziga Vertov, were the first to use this type of editing.
montage
stop motion
POV
continuity
Who was the first to project films for a viewing audience?
Thomas Edison
The Lumiere Brothers
Edwin S. Porter
D.W. Griffith
Which film is self-reflexive, meaning it made the viewer aware that he is watching the film making process?
Which film's settings inspired futuristic cities and laboratories featured in later films such as Frankenstein and Star Wars?
Which photo is not taken from a German Expressionistic film?
Which successful film was credited with being the first Western?
The Great Train Robbery
True Grit
An Arrival of a Train at a Station
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Which actor famously hanged from a clock on a tall building?
Buster Keaton
Charlie Chaplin
D. W. Griffith
Harold Lloyd
Which actor created his famous character The Little Tramp?
Buster Keaton
Harold Lloyd
Charlie Chaplin
Al Jolson
Which director is not from the German Expressionism genre of directing?
D.W. Griffith
F.W. Murnau
Fritz Lang
Robert Wiene
What is not true of Sherlock Jr. (1924)?
It was highly self-reflexive.
It was written and directed by Charlie Chaplin.
It compared movies with dreams.
Buster Keaton performed all of his own stunts.
