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| How many frames per second do modern movies project? |
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| What is meant by the "cinematic illusion?" |
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| The illusion of smooth movement, which comes when teh separate frames making up a cinematic film are projected faster than a certain threshold speed. |
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| Unexposed film. (also known as filmstock, rawstock, stock) |
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| How many frames per second were silent films shown? |
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| Silent films ran at 16 to 24 fps, with 16 fps common for most films before 1920. |
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| What is meant by "persistence of vision?" |
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| The property of the visual system that allows a short flash of light or exposure to an image to be percieved over a longer period of time. |
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| Which four countries claim to have inventted the motion picture? |
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| United States, Britain, Germany and France. |
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| What bet did Eadweard Muybridge settle? |
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| A $25,000 bet that at some point all four hooves of a horse left the ground by means of photographic proof. |
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| What was Étienne-Jules Marey's contribution to the development of motion picture? |
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| Creating the first known movie camera to use celluloid film instead of paper film. |
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| What was the Kinetoscope? |
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| Vertical-feed 35mm "peephole" or eyepiece viewer invented by Thomas Edison |
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| What was Thomas Edison's "Black Maria?" |
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| The outside of the studio that was protected with black tar paper (to exclude unwanted light) located in W.Orange, NJ. |
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| Made drawings of a box that could reproduce images by means of a light passing through a lens. |
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| When did the first movie theatre open to the paying public debut? |
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| December 28,1895 in the basement room of the Grand Café in Paris. |
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| What motion picture conventions adopted by the lumiére brothers are still in use today? |
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| Stabilized film with a width at precisely 35mm, the exposure rate of 16 fps and Cinématographe. |
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| What great film pioneer built George Méliés camera? |
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| What is meant by "vertical integration?" |
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| Method of controlling everthing from the top, from production to distribution. |
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| What companies did Charles Pathé and Léon Gaumont start? |
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| Charles started Pathé Fréres and Léon started Gaumont. |
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| Who was Alice Guy and why was she important to the development of motion pictures? |
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| Alice Guy was Léon Gaumont's secretary and was the world's first woman director and head to the production arm of a studio. |
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| What were two dominant film genres in early cinema? |
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| Melodrama and farce films |
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| The area of designing and staging a scene for the camera. |
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| Was the first internationally famous star of motion pictures and was one of the first great film clowns. |
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| Presenting a character's thoughts |
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| What aspects of Edwin S. Porter's Life of an American Fireman were inventive for its time? |
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| Attempted a mindscreen and used a vignette or "dream balloon" |
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| Who were the members of the Brighton School, and what were some of their films? |
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George Albert Smith and James Williamson.
(Let me dream again, the moon at one meter, a nightmare, peeping tom) |
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| Who was G.W. Billy Blitzer? |
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| Was a pioneering cinematographer notable for his close association with D.W. Griffith. |
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| What did the motion picture companies fo within their films to discourage piracy? |
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| What s a nickelodeon and where was the first one? How many americans went tot hem weekly in 1908? |
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| A nickel theatre and was located in a Pittsburgh store theatre which drew 80 million admissions weekly. |
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| What was the motion picture patent company? |
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| A trut of all the makor american film companies, film distributer and the biggest supplier of raw film stock. |
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| Who were Carl Laemmle and Willam Fox? How did they get started in the movie business and what studios did they later find? |
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Carl Laemmle was a film exchange man, film producer, and gave birth to the organization that would eventually become Universal Pictures.
William Fox, distributor and theatre owner, producer and the organization that would eventually become 20th century fox |
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| What was the Film d'art? What kind of movies were they? |
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| A theory or category of film that considers film as very closely tied to and perhaps and extension of the literary arts, specifically theater and the novel. |
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| Who was David Belasco and why was D.W. Griffith drawn to this style? |
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| Was a Broadway producer and had D.W. Griffith has his apprentice. D.W. Griffith was drawn to Belasco's style because he could successfully translate the Belasco's effects for the screen. |
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| What was Griffith's first movie as an actor? What year was it made? |
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| His first role was a lumberjack (a very thin lumberjack) and father in The Eagles Nest. |
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| What was the name and year of the first film that Griffith directed? |
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| The Adventures of Dollie in 1908 |
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| Approximately how many films did Griffith do for Biograph between 1908-1913? |
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| What different shooting perspectives did Griffith develop? |
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| Full shot, medium shot, close shot, close-up shot, extreme close-up, long shot, extreme long shot, the pan, the traveling shot. |
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| Who was Griffith's cameraman? |
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| Which actors had worked for Griffith by 1913? |
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| Mary Pickford, Lillian and Dorothy Gish, Lionel Barrymore, Mae Marsh, Blanch Sweet, Harry Carey, Henry B. Walthall, Robert Harron and Donald Crisp. |
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| What was Griffith's view of women im his narratives? |
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| Forceful, clever and bale human beings who could take care of themselves when they had to. |
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| What year did directors begin getting credit for the movies they made? |
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| What was the name of the studio Griffith worked for after leaving Biograph? |
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| In the griffith movies what are the positive values an what are the negative ones? |
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The postive values are social order, peace, intellectual freedom, loyalty, the home and family, womanhood/motherhood, children who are happy and safe, and marital fidelity.
Negative values are correspondingly social change, war, censorship, treachery, the high life, sexual license, and teh broken or abusive home. |
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