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Movies are Magic Film History Crash Course #1

Total questions: 1

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1-10.
1.

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?

a)

Film

b)

Analog

c)

Digital video

d)

Photography

2.

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?

a)

Louis Daguerre

b)

Peter Mark Roget

c)

Max Wertheimer

d)

Joseph Nicéphore Niépce

3.

What is the optical illusion that lets you see a series of images in rapid succession as continuous motion?

a)

Zoetrope

b)

Camera Obscura

c)

Persistence of Vision

d)

Phi Phenomenon

4.

What did Leland Stanford commission Eadweard Muybridge to capture photographic proof of?

a)

A moving train

b)

A horse at full gallop raising all four hooves off the ground

c)

A bird in flight

d)

A human athlete in action

5.

Who invented the kinetograph, the world’s first motion picture film camera?

a)

Joseph Nicéphore Niépce

b)

Louis Daguerre

c)

W.K.L. Dickson

d)

Thomas Edison

6.

What is the name of the French inventor who took the first known camera photograph?

a)

Étienne-Jules Marey

b)

Joseph Nicéphore Niépce

c)

Louis Daguerre

d)

Eadweard Muybridge

7.

What did George Eastman invent as a way of taking pictures on paper, rather than metal or glass plates?

a)

Roll film

b)

Daguerreotype

c)

Kinetograph

d)

Photography

8.

What did Joseph Nicéphore Niépce use to take the first known camera photograph?

a)

Daguerreotype

b)

Roll film

c)

Camera obscura

d)

Pewter plate

9.

What did Louis Daguerre invent as the first commercially-available, mass-market means of taking photographs?

a)

Roll film

b)

Kinetograph

c)

Photography

d)

Daguerreotype

10.

What did people use to isolate images of the world around them before the invention of photography?

a)

Stereoscope

b)

Zoetrope

c)

Stroboscope

d)

Camera obscura