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History of Film EAGLE

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which below is another term for a movie?

a)

video camera

b)

film

c)

story

d)

main character with a problem

e)

soundtrack

2.

Who is responsible for the world's first motion picture film camera?

a)

Thomas Edison

b)

George Eastman

c)

Clint Eastwood

d)

Ben Franklin

e)

Eli Whitney

3.

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

4.

What is the name of the device invented by the Lumiere brothers for projecting movies?

a)

Cinematographe

b)

Projectorgraph

c)

Movietone Machine

d)

Camerator

e)

Cinemascope

5.

Which of the following best describes the major accomplishment of the Lumiere brothers?

a)

first projected movies

b)

single viewer projectors

c)

camera that could be handheld

d)

digital film editing

6.

The Lumiere brothers were from this country.

a)

United States

b)

England

c)

Germany

d)

France

e)

Italy

7.

Which below describes accurate characteristics of the films before 1906?

a)

silent, black & white, no editing, duration of less than 1 minute

b)

silent, some color, minimal editing, duration of less than 1 minute

c)

silent, black & white, edited scenes, duration of less than 1 minute

d)

silent, black & white, no editing, duration of 2 to 5 minutes

8.

In 1877 Thomas Edison invented the

a)

Camera

b)

Phonograph

c)

Telephone

d)

Electric

9.

The Kinetoscopes’ film strips were common sideshow entertainment viewable by one person at a time. Some examples could be...

a)

Wrestling matches

b)

Boxing cats

c)

Trapeze acts

d)

All of The Above

10.

The first motion picture camera was called a

a)

Telegraph

b)

Kinetograph

c)

Kinetoscope

d)

Telescope

11.

The Cinematographe was invented by the Lumiere Brothers from?

a)

Italy

b)

France

c)

Germany

d)

Switzerland

12.

During Silent films there was either piano playing, musicians, dialogue delivered by actors or full-scale orchestras?

a)

False

b)

True

13.

The first feature-length talkie and first musical is...

a)

1920, The Jazz Singer

b)

1927, The Jazz Singer

c)

1930, The Jazz Singer

d)

1940, The Jazz Singer

14.

In 1932, the development of a new 3-color camera,__________________ , would make a major impact.

a)

Technicolor

b)

Vitacolor

c)

Phonocolor

d)

Chromacolor