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Crash Course Film History #4-6

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

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)

a)

parallel action

b)

cross-cutting

c)

cutting on the action

d)

matching action

e)

continuity

2.

Who is responsible for creating The Language of Film?

a)

Edwin S Porter

b)

Porter S Edwards

c)

Edwin S Rommel

d)

Edwin S Gershwin

e)

Edwin S VanHalen

3.

Which film is considered to be the first to use parallel action to edit the film in 1902?

a)

Life And Times Of Robin Hood

b)

Life On The American West

c)

Life Of An American Policeman

d)

Life Of An American Fireman

4.

Edwin S Porter was the first to pan a camera. What does it mean to pan the camera?

a)

move it left to right or right to left

b)

zoom the camera in for a closeup

c)

tilt the camera up or down

d)

move the camera using wheels

5.

What film technique is used to show action that is taking place at the same time?

a)

cross-cutting

b)

pans and tilts

c)

simultaneous parallelism

d)

existential paradigm shifting

6.

The process of running the film negative twice through the camera, resulting in showing two pictures, is known as:

a)

double exposure

b)

double indemnity

c)

crosscutting

d)

cross dissolve

7.

The stage magician who stumbled upon early cutting and in camera effects was

a)

Georges Melies

b)

Harry Houdini

c)

Harry Blackstone Sr.

d)

Lance Burton

8.

Georges Melies is most known film:

a)

A Trip to the Moon

b)

The Cabbage Fairy

c)

A Day in the Life

d)

It's a Wonderful Life

9.

The earliest method of adding color to film involved

a)

using a prism in camera to split light onto three separate films

b)

hand painting color frame by frame on every copy of the film

c)

adding a light sensitive emulsion onto film stock

d)

shooting with color film

10.

True or False: To this day, Georges Melies is still impacting the world of film

a)

True

b)

False

11.

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)

a corporation

b)

a studio

c)

a conglomerate

d)

a production

12.

Mass produced, 10-15 minute films that were churned out by studios were known as

a)

One-reelers

b)

Nickelodeons

c)

Actualités

d)

Previews

13.

DW Griffith is known for pioneering

a)

The close up

b)

Advanced editing techniques

c)

All of these are true

d)

flashbacks

14.

DW Griffith's most famous film and also his most controversial:

a)

Birth of a Nation

b)

The Great Dictator

c)

Trip to the Moon

d)

Metropolis

15.

The new style of film that caused the death of the one-reeler, now running between 70 and 130 minutes:

a)

the Feature film

b)

Actualités

c)

Documentaries

d)

Nickelodeons