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MCOMM 224 Final Exam Questions With
Correct Answers.
What decade is considered to have marked the true beginning of the motion picture medium: -
answer✔1890s
The Edison employee credited with the "hands-on" invention of motion picture technology: -
answer✔Dickson
(T or F) Edison's kinetoscope projected motion pictures onto a screen. - answer✔False
The "heroes" of Birth of a Nation: - answer✔The Klu Klux Klan
Which of the following is associated with Mack Sennett: - answer✔→Keystone Kops
→Film Comedy
→Charlie Chaplin's first short films as a performer
(T or F) The original title of Birth of a Nation was "The Clansman." - answer✔True
The director of The Great Train Robbery: - answer✔Porter
The actress who frequently starred in D.W. Griffith films: - answer✔Gish
Which film was not directed by D.W. Griffith: - answer✔The Great Train Robbery
(T or F) Birth of a Nation was not controversial at the time of its release -- it was not until many
years later that the content of the film generated arguments against it. - answer✔False
The director of Birth of a Nation: - answer✔Griffith
(T or F) "Nickelodeons" were studios where early motion pictures were filmed. - answer✔False
(T or F) The Lumiere "Cinematographe" was a technical improvement over the Edison
kinetograph/kinetoscope. - answer✔True
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The video for "Tonight, Tonight" by the Smashing Pumpkins in the 1990s was influenced by a
film made by: - answer✔Melies
(T or F) The most common length of the very first motion pictures seen in "slot machines" was
around 30 minutes. - answer✔False
The 1927 film that won a special Oscar for "unique and artistic achievement" the same year
that Wings won for "best film production:" - answer✔Sunrise
(T or F) Chaplin's City Lights ends with the girl, now cured of blindness, never realizing it was the
Chaplin character who had helped her. - answer✔False
Which one of the following individuals was not a founding partner in United Artists: -
answer✔DeMille
(T or F) Wings (1927) was about pilots in World War I. - answer✔True
Which actress is not associated with movies in the 20s: - answer✔Audrey Hepburn
"It" in the 1920s referred to: - answer✔Sexuality
Which type of film was Nanook of the North: - answer✔Documentary
"The man of a thousand faces," he starred in The Phantom of the Opera and The Hunchback of
Notre Dame: - answer✔Lon Chaney
Which film did Charlie Chaplin not direct and star in: - answer✔Greed
In a video for this course, a house being hauled by car is surprisingly missed by a train only to
then be hit by a second train. Who was the star of the film that scene was from? -
answer✔Keaton
The country regarded as the origin of "expressionism" in film: - answer✔Germany
(T or F) Un Chien Andalou is considered to be an example of Avant Garde filmmaking. -
answer✔True
The Passion of Joan of Arc is especially known for its: - answer✔Extreme use of close-ups
The film famous for an image of a razor slitting an eye: - answer✔Un Chien Andalou
In Fritz Lang's M, who identifies the child killer to those hunting for him: - answer✔A blind man
who recognized the killer by the tune he whistled
Marlene Dietrich starred in several films with this director: - answer✔Joseph Von Sternberg
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MCOMM 224 Final Exam Questions With
Correct Answers.
What decade is considered to have marked the true beginning of the motion picture medium: -
answer✔1890s
The Edison employee credited with the "hands-on" invention of motion picture technology: -
answer✔Dickson
(T or F) Edison's kinetoscope projected motion pictures onto a screen. - answer✔False
The "heroes" of Birth of a Nation: - answer✔The Klu Klux Klan
Which of the following is associated with Mack Sennett: - answer✔→Keystone Kops
→Film Comedy
→Charlie Chaplin's first short films as a performer
(T or F) The original title of Birth of a Nation was "The Clansman." - answer✔True
The director of The Great Train Robbery: - answer✔Porter
The actress who frequently starred in D.W. Griffith films: - answer✔Gish
Which film was not directed by D.W. Griffith: - answer✔The Great Train Robbery
(T or F) Birth of a Nation was not controversial at the time of its release -- it was not until many
years later that the content of the film generated arguments against it. - answer✔False
The director of Birth of a Nation: - answer✔Griffith
(T or F) "Nickelodeons" were studios where early motion pictures were filmed. - answer✔False
(T or F) The Lumiere "Cinematographe" was a technical improvement over the Edison
kinetograph/kinetoscope. - answer✔True
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The video for "Tonight, Tonight" by the Smashing Pumpkins in the 1990s was influenced by a
film made by: - answer✔Melies
(T or F) The most common length of the very first motion pictures seen in "slot machines" was
around 30 minutes. - answer✔False
The 1927 film that won a special Oscar for "unique and artistic achievement" the same year
that Wings won for "best film production:" - answer✔Sunrise
(T or F) Chaplin's City Lights ends with the girl, now cured of blindness, never realizing it was the
Chaplin character who had helped her. - answer✔False
Which one of the following individuals was not a founding partner in United Artists: -
answer✔DeMille
(T or F) Wings (1927) was about pilots in World War I. - answer✔True
Which actress is not associated with movies in the 20s: - answer✔Audrey Hepburn
"It" in the 1920s referred to: - answer✔Sexuality
Which type of film was Nanook of the North: - answer✔Documentary
"The man of a thousand faces," he starred in The Phantom of the Opera and The Hunchback of
Notre Dame: - answer✔Lon Chaney
Which film did Charlie Chaplin not direct and star in: - answer✔Greed
In a video for this course, a house being hauled by car is surprisingly missed by a train only to
then be hit by a second train. Who was the star of the film that scene was from? -
answer✔Keaton
The country regarded as the origin of "expressionism" in film: - answer✔Germany
(T or F) Un Chien Andalou is considered to be an example of Avant Garde filmmaking. -
answer✔True
The Passion of Joan of Arc is especially known for its: - answer✔Extreme use of close-ups
The film famous for an image of a razor slitting an eye: - answer✔Un Chien Andalou
In Fritz Lang's M, who identifies the child killer to those hunting for him: - answer✔A blind man
who recognized the killer by the tune he whistled
Marlene Dietrich starred in several films with this director: - answer✔Joseph Von Sternberg
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