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WorksheetsCrash Course Film History #4-6
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
The idea that a film can cut back and forth between two or more events that are happening simultaneously within the world of film is known as: (select two)
parallel action
cross-cutting
cutting on the action
matching action
continuity
Who is responsible for creating The Language of Film?
Edwin S Porter
Porter S Edwards
Edwin S Rommel
Edwin S Gershwin
Edwin S VanHalen
Which film is considered to be the first to use parallel action to edit the film in 1902?
Life And Times Of Robin Hood
Life On The American West
Life Of An American Policeman
Life Of An American Fireman
Edwin S Porter was the first to pan a camera. What does it mean to pan the camera?
move it left to right or right to left
zoom the camera in for a closeup
tilt the camera up or down
move the camera using wheels
What film technique is used to show action that is taking place at the same time?
cross-cutting
pans and tilts
simultaneous parallelism
existential paradigm shifting
The process of running the film negative twice through the camera, resulting in showing two pictures, is known as:
double exposure
double indemnity
crosscutting
cross dissolve
The stage magician who stumbled upon early cutting and in camera effects was
Georges Melies
Harry Houdini
Harry Blackstone Sr.
Lance Burton
Georges Melies is most known film:
A Trip to the Moon
The Cabbage Fairy
A Day in the Life
It's a Wonderful Life
The earliest method of adding color to film involved
using a prism in camera to split light onto three separate films
hand painting color frame by frame on every copy of the film
adding a light sensitive emulsion onto film stock
shooting with color film
True or False: To this day, Georges Melies is still impacting the world of film
True
False
The term used to describe an entertainment company that has grown large enough to have its own offices, sound stages, props/costumes, and editing rooms.
a corporation
a studio
a conglomerate
a production
Mass produced, 10-15 minute films that were churned out by studios were known as
One-reelers
Nickelodeons
Actualités
Previews
DW Griffith is known for pioneering
The close up
Advanced editing techniques
All of these are true
flashbacks
DW Griffith's most famous film and also his most controversial:
Birth of a Nation
The Great Dictator
Trip to the Moon
Metropolis
The new style of film that caused the death of the one-reeler, now running between 70 and 130 minutes:
the Feature film
Actualités
Documentaries
Nickelodeons
