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Cinema history in one minute

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who invented the kinetoscope in 1891?

a)

Walt Whitman

b)

Thomas Edison

c)
Walt Disney
d)
George Eastman
2.

Who invented cinema?

a)

Thomas Edison

b)

Lumière brothers

c)

George Méliès

d)

Steven Spielberg

3.

In what year cinema was invented?

a)

1895

b)

1905

c)

1885

d)

1875

4.

What is the name of the first movie by the Lumière brothers?

a)

A trip to the moon

b)

The Arrival of a train

c)

The war of the worlds

d)

Workers leaving the Lumière factory

5.

Where did the first public movie screening take place?

a)

Paris

b)

New York

c)

London

d)

Lyon

6.

Why were the first movies silent?

a)

The technology wasn't advanced enough

b)

The audience preferred watching movies without sound

c)

Silent movies were cheaper than talking movies

d)

The first movies had sound but it was too quiet to hear

7.

What was the title of the first movie to include audio?

a)
A Star is Born
b)
The Jazz Singer
c)

The Soprano

d)
The Singing Fool
8.

During the Golden Age, what studio dominated the cinema industry?

a)
20th Century Fox
b)
MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)
c)
Paramount Pictures
d)

Pathé

9.

Choose the correct definition of "blockbuster"

a)

A successful and popular film

b)

Old stores where you could rent a movie

c)

A film showing the communist block

d)

A film where houses are being destroyed

10.

Find the only blockbuster in the propositions:

a)

Chicken run

b)

Super Mario Bros, the movie

c)

Godzilla VS Kong

d)

Star Wars