WorksheetsMovies are Magic Film History Crash Course #1
Total questions: 1
Worksheet time: 7mins
What is the term used to describe a thin, flexible material coated in light-sensitive emulsion that retains an image after it’s exposed to light?
Film
Analog
Digital video
Photography
Who was the first to describe the Persistence of Vision, which is the phenomenon that keeps you from seeing the black spaces between the frames of a projected film?
Louis Daguerre
Peter Mark Roget
Max Wertheimer
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce
What is the optical illusion that lets you see a series of images in rapid succession as continuous motion?
Zoetrope
Camera Obscura
Persistence of Vision
Phi Phenomenon
What did Leland Stanford commission Eadweard Muybridge to capture photographic proof of?
A moving train
A horse at full gallop raising all four hooves off the ground
A bird in flight
A human athlete in action
Who invented the kinetograph, the world’s first motion picture film camera?
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce
Louis Daguerre
W.K.L. Dickson
Thomas Edison
What is the name of the French inventor who took the first known camera photograph?
Étienne-Jules Marey
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce
Louis Daguerre
Eadweard Muybridge
What did George Eastman invent as a way of taking pictures on paper, rather than metal or glass plates?
Roll film
Daguerreotype
Kinetograph
Photography
What did Joseph Nicéphore Niépce use to take the first known camera photograph?
Daguerreotype
Roll film
Camera obscura
Pewter plate
What did Louis Daguerre invent as the first commercially-available, mass-market means of taking photographs?
Roll film
Kinetograph
Photography
Daguerreotype
What did people use to isolate images of the world around them before the invention of photography?
Stereoscope
Zoetrope
Stroboscope
Camera obscura
