WorksheetsHistory of Film EAGLE
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 7mins
Which below is another term for a movie?
video camera
film
story
main character with a problem
soundtrack
Who is responsible for the world's first motion picture film camera?
Thomas Edison
George Eastman
Clint Eastwood
Ben Franklin
Eli Whitney
Who was the first to project films for a viewing audience?
Thomas Edison
The Lumiere Brothers
Edwin S. Porter
D.W. Griffith
What is the name of the device invented by the Lumiere brothers for projecting movies?
Cinematographe
Projectorgraph
Movietone Machine
Camerator
Cinemascope
Which of the following best describes the major accomplishment of the Lumiere brothers?
first projected movies
single viewer projectors
camera that could be handheld
digital film editing
The Lumiere brothers were from this country.
United States
England
Germany
France
Italy
Which below describes accurate characteristics of the films before 1906?
silent, black & white, no editing, duration of less than 1 minute
silent, some color, minimal editing, duration of less than 1 minute
silent, black & white, edited scenes, duration of less than 1 minute
silent, black & white, no editing, duration of 2 to 5 minutes
In 1877 Thomas Edison invented the
Camera
Phonograph
Telephone
Electric
The Kinetoscopes’ film strips were common sideshow entertainment viewable by one person at a time. Some examples could be...
Wrestling matches
Boxing cats
Trapeze acts
All of The Above
The first motion picture camera was called a
Telegraph
Kinetograph
Kinetoscope
Telescope
The Cinematographe was invented by the Lumiere Brothers from?
Italy
France
Germany
Switzerland
During Silent films there was either piano playing, musicians, dialogue delivered by actors or full-scale orchestras?
False
True
The first feature-length talkie and first musical is...
1920, The Jazz Singer
1927, The Jazz Singer
1930, The Jazz Singer
1940, The Jazz Singer
In 1932, the development of a new 3-color camera,__________________ , would make a major impact.
Technicolor
Vitacolor
Phonocolor
Chromacolor
