Film Appreciation Exam 2
Not considered props because they are not handled by actors, the small objects that are found on the set like photos or vases of flowers are considered what?
Set dressing
What film did John Huston direct during World War II while embedded with the infantry during an operation in southern Italy?
The Battle of San Pietro
Arthur Freed, Vincent Minelli, Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly were producer/directors who made more than 40 musicals for MGM in the 1950's and were called:
The Freed unit
Because of Rhythm in design terms, the shorter the flow and more stops made by the eye the character or object appears:
Weaker
The major Hollywood studios reacted to the popularity of television in the 1950's with:Intimate, character-driven dramas
Wide-screen Technicolor epics and musicals
As a young man in the late 1920's Alfred Hitchcock studied film in Germany where he became influenced by what artistic genre?
Expressionism
Alfred Hitchcock refused offers from Hollywood until a stipulation giving him a percent of his films' gross proceeds was added to his contract.
False
Film Noir continued to use the popular Technicolor film stock and camera for shooting.
False
Hollywood opted for a square screen format to help compete against television.
False
In his Westerns, John Ford presented Native Americans as brutal and uncivilized.
False
Triumph of the Will employed one static camera to photograph a Nazi event that had been staged intentionally for the camera.
False
Welles pioneered the sound device of linking a complex montage sequence through related sounds or phrases, which became known as the thunder-mix.
False
In Film Noir films the "bad girls" like Brigid O'Shaughnessy in The Maltese Falcon were referred to as:
Femme Fatales
The Hollywood Ten were
Film artists who served prison time for defying HUAC
Which cinematographer developed new lenses and techniques when working with Orson Welles on Citizen Kane?
Gregg Toland
Who was the first disabled actor to be cast in a major role in Hollywood when William Wyler cast him as Homer Parrish in The Best Years of Our Lives?
Harold Russell
Who is the only actor to have directed himself to a Best Actor Oscar?
Laurence Oliver for Hamlet
Who was commissioned by Hitler to direct a three hour documentary of the Nazi party's first party convention in Nuremberg in 1934?
Leni Riefenstahl
The objects held in an actors hand are called?
Props
This technology, popular today, was experimented with greatly in the 1950s:
3-D
Who fought in the invasion of Normandy on D-Day and went on to have a successful career as a Hollywood actor?
All of the above
Casablanca won an Academy Award for
All of the above
Rushed into production one month after the United States' entrance into World War II, Casablanca mirrored what experience shared by the American people?
All of the above
Which Academy Award winning actor actively served in the military during World War II?
All of the above
Which Academy Award winning director actively served in the military during World War II?
All of the above
This cinematographer, along with Gregg Toland, is considered the father of Film Noir lighting:
Arthur Edeson
As a result of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) investigations many Hollywood artists who studios would refuse to hire were considered unofficially:
Black-listed
Which Hollywood comedian's USO show entertained troops in every combat zone from 1941 - 1991?
Bob Hope
For his work in The Best Years of Our Lives Harold Russell won Best Supporting Actor and an Honorary Oscar for:
Bringing hope and courage to disabled veterans
Italian dictator Benito Mussolini created which studio in 1937 which became one of the largest in Europe and still continues today?
Cinecitta
Scenery, costumes and props all have a specific designers however, lighting is designed by the:
Cinematographer
In Casablanca costume designer Orry Kelly reinforced Victor Laszlo's role as a "pillar of virtue" by dressing actor Paul Henreid in a(n):
Close fitting long white suit
Which visual element reinforces the actors' interpretation of the character?
Costumes
The technique of placing lenses on top of lenses so that the background, mid-ground, and foreground are in focus at the same time is called:
Deep focus
Known for his unusual and unexpected imagery, what did Jean Cocteau have Belle's father see in the hallway of the castle in his 1946 film Beauty and the Beast?
Disembodied hands holding candelabras
Cool colors of blue and green invoke a feeling that is:
Distant and dispassionate
Cinema is an art form based primarily on what?
Images
Diagonal lines invoke a feeling that is:
Interesting but different and attractive.
The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) headed by Joseph McCarthy was created to:
Investigate communist propoganda in hollywood
Which director was the son of a famous impressionist painter and grew up in Paris in a loving, artistic environment?
Jean Renoir
In Citizen Kane composer Bernard Hermann created a method of using music to help cinematic transitions in editing scenes. He referred to it as:
Radio Scoring
Which director was dubbed "The King of the Westerns?"
John Ford
John Ford gave which actor his breakthrough role in Stagecoach?
John Wayne
Which of the following elements characterize a Film Noir?
Lowkey lighting with deep shadows and claustrophobic framing Flashbacks so the protagonist discovers the point of his downfallA male protagonist's fascination with a "femme fatale"
When William Wyler enlisted in the Air Force and was unable to direct Casablanca, producer Hal Wallis hired which director who was born in Hungary and had family in Nazi occupied Europe?
Michael Curtiz
Welles and screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz created the ___________ to move the plot quickly.
Montage
Which film directed by William Wyler showed the struggles and courage of British families during the German "Blitz" in WW2?
Mrs.Miniver
John Ford was one of the first directors to shoot ______________________ to avoid interference by studio producers.
On location
Warm colors of red, yellow and orange invoke a feeling that is:
Passionate, loving, and inviting.
This film illustrated the growing conflict between teens and parents.
Rebel without a cause
The physical environment of a scene including walls, floors, ground, furnishings and decorations is called:
Scenery
Which of these was not a genre Howard Hawks directed in?
Science Fiction
Which 1952 musical starring Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor and 19 year-old Debbie Reynolds told the story of Hollywood's transition to "talkies" using glorious Technicolor and songs already owned by MGM?
Singin in the Rain
Curved lines invoke a feeling that is:
Soft, feminine, and inviting.
Director Howard Hawks believed that a director's job was to be a(n):
Storyteller
Horizontal lines invoke a feeling that is:
Strong and stable like the horizon.
Vertical lines invoke a feeling that is:
Strong but more spiritual
Because of Rhythm in design terms, the longer the flow and fewer stops made by the eye the character or object appears
Stronger
In the 1950's Hollywood "genre" movies were created for what new audience emerging in post-World War II America?
Teenagers
What caused the decline in the prosperity of the movie industry in the 1950's?
Television
Orson Welles directed a radio show of which work by H. G. Wells as though it was a live newscast causing fear and hysteria that Martians had invaded?
The war of the worlds
Which film, created to demonstrate the power of the Third Reich, was so effective that it was banned in most Allied countries during World War II?
Triumph of the Will
Billy Wilder received a staggering 21 Oscar nominations during his career.
True
Citizen Kane is the story of the American dream gone wrong.
True
Following WW II through the end of the Production Code in the late 1960s, the Western established itself as a dominant genre.
True
John Huston's films deal with human frailty.
True
Michael Curtiz was nominated for Best Director for three films in 1938.
True
RKO offered Orson Welles a two picture deal with complete artistic control when he was 24 years old.
True
Russian director Sergei Einstein was sent to Europe, Mexico, and the United States to study the sound of technology of sound to advance the Soviet film industry.
True
Which director could not accept his Oscar because he was flying a bombing mission over Germany?
William Wyler