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,Film History: An Introduction, 4e (Thompson)Chapter 1 The Invention and Early Years of the Cinema, 1880s-1904
1) Which form of entertainment was NOT a staple of American popular culture immediately
prior to the invention of the cinema?
A) freak shows
B) music hall entertainment
C) historical theater
D) radio
Answer: D
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2) Which of the following is a George Eastman invention that was used in designing machines to
take and project motion pictures?
A) celluloid roll film
B) metal slide
C) paper roll film
D) glass lantern slide
Answer: A
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3) Which of the following was NOT a necessary precondition for the invention of cinema?
A) a photographic base flexible enough to pass through a camera rapidly
B) the capacity to project a rapid series of images on a surface
C) the ability to encode an optical soundtrack directly on a filmstrip
D) the existence of an intermittent mechanism for both cameras and projectors
Answer: C
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4) Étienne Jules Marey provided an important precursor of motion pictures with his invention of
________, which exposed twelve images around the edge of a circular glass plate that made a
single revolution in one second.
A) a photographic gun
B) a colored zoopraxiscope
C) the Kinetoscope
D) the Cinématographe
Answer: A
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,5) The Zoetrope was:
A) the theater that exhibited projected films for the first time in the United States.
B) the camera-projector developed by the Lumière brothers.
C) a nineteenth-century optical toy.
D) the studio in which the earliest Edison films were shot.
Answer: C
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6) Which of the following early cameras also doubled as a projector?
A) the Cinématographe
B) the Biograph
C) the Bioscop
D) the Praxinoscope
Answer: A
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7) Edison's Kinetoscope viewing box was initially highly profitable, but its popularity declined:
A) because of competition from amusement parks.
B) because Edison oversaturated the market with the devices.
C) because other inventors found ways to project films on a screen.
D) because Edison lost a patent-infringement suit filed by American Mutoscope.
Answer: C
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8) Around 1895, the Lumière brothers decided to shoot their films at ________, which became
the most commonly used international film speed for about twenty years.
A) sixteen frames per second
B) forty-six frames per second
C) twenty-four frames per second
D) sixty frames per second
Answer: A
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9) The Vitascope, a projector manufactured and marketed by Thomas Edison, was invented and
initially exhibited by:
A) Norman Raff and Frank Gammon.
B) Otway and Gray Latham.
C) Herman Casler and W. K. L. Dickson.
D) C. Francis Jenkins and Thomas Armat.
Answer: D
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, 10) Short travelogue films offering views of distant lands were originally known as:
A) panoramas.
B) scenics.
C) tropicals.
D) actualities.
Answer: B
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11) Which of the following nations was NOT one of the three primary film-producing countries
during the first decade of cinema?
A) the United States
B) France
C) Germany
D) England
Answer: C
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12) What cinematographic innovation is Lumière camera operator Eugène Promio credited with?
A) superimposition
B) slow motion
C) the close-up
D) the moving camera
Answer: D
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13) Which of the following studios or individuals was NOT a significant producer of films in
France in the middle and late 1900s?
A) Léon Gaumont
B) Émile Reynaud
C) Pathé Frères
D) Georges Méliès
Answer: B
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