Cine quiz 1-4

Motion Pictures were invented in which decade?

1890

They sync sound era began in in what yea?

1927

By which decade was there a realistic color process for film?

1930s

The MPAA production Code started being enforced with teeth in

1934

Gone with the Wind and The Wizard of Oz both came out in Hollywood's Greatest

1939

Big movies like Lawrence of Arabia that had reserved seating, intermissions and wide screens are known as a a.) spectaculars b.) road shows c.) franchises

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Which stage of the Genre Film would Singin' in the Rain and The Searchers fall under? a.) classic b.) revisionist c.) parody

?????

Director of Dr. Zhivago, Bridge on the River Kwai and Lawrence of Arabis.

David Lean

In Ingmar Bergman's film The Seventh Seal, the knight is playing chess with

Death

The major Hollywood movie studio were founded by

Jewish immigrants

Director of such classic westerns with John Wayne as The Searchers, Fort Apache and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence...

John Ford

Why were picture palaces built?

attract the middle class to movies

Directors like Hitchcock, Fellini, Kurasawa and Wilder who had near complete control of their films and often wrote them with a strong personal vision would be known as what according to some film theorists?

auteurs

When agents negotiate their actor/clients to receive part of the profits this is known as getting part of

back end

What was the reason many movie productions moved west to California?

better weather

In the late 40s and early 50s the anti communist hysteria sweeping the nation called The Red Scare or McCarthyism affected Hollywood with the use of

blacklisting

Which one of these was not one of the causes of the fall of the studio system?

censors

By the 1920s the Hollywood studios were very efficient and were said to be run like

factories

While Europeans are fascinated by America's Wild West with cowboys and wide open spaces, Americans are equally fascinated by European

fairy tales/royalty

Billy Wilder used this technique at the beginning of both Double Indemnity and Sunset Blvd.

framing device

Alfred Hitchcock, the director of Psycho often used this device to distract audiences from the main plot of the film a.) framing device b.) voyeurism c.) MacGuffin

framing device??????

Goldfinger was the 3rd film in the James Bond series that is still going strong after 50 years; this is a prime example of what kind of film?

franchise

What was the studios initial response to technological developments like TV?

ignored

The James Bond film Goldfinger presents the rise of

international films

In showing his film Psycho, Hitchcock refused to allow audiences into the theater after the film had started because he

killed off the lead actress 40 mins. into the film

Federico Fellini's 8 1/2 is a film about:

making a film

Kurasawa's film Rashomon has entered our language because of it's unique narrative; it means:

multiple viewpoints

Richard Lester's Beatle film A Hard Day's Night can be seen as an influence on

music videos

Federico Fellini's name has entered the language as Fellini-esque; it means:

strange; bizarre

In the Paramount Decree the Supreme Court ruled in 1948 that the motion picture studios would have to sell off (divest) themselves of

theaters

Elements used in all James Bond films like high tech gadgets, suggestive women's names, villains henchmen and exotic filming locations are all collectively called

tropes

Films that are told in the first person (ex: Sunset Blvd, Double Indemnity) often use this device

voice over

In Hitchcock's Rear Window and Psycho the protagonists spy on others, this is called

voyeurism

The studios response to falling attendance in the early 1950s was

wide screens

In the 1930s and 40s some movies with low budgets and unknown actors were called what?

B movies

Sci Fi films such as Invasion of the Body Snatchers and Invaders from Mars were thought to be allegories for

Communism

Who was the director of On the Waterfront that named names during the McCarthy era witch hunts?

Elia Kazan

Which one of these films is not a remake of Kurasawa's Seven Samurai

Hateful 8

The Production Code was instituted by

Hollywood studios

Which of the following actors was a leading practitioner of the new method acting style?

Marlon Brando

Which one of these directors is known for his many parodies like Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, and Space Balls?

Mel Brooks

Which one of these films was shown as an example of the musical genre?

Singin' in the Rain

Alfred Hitchcock and Walt Disney were among the very few in 1950s Hollywood to embrace what technology?

TV

Which of these is not a common element of Film Noir?

The mob

Rebel Without a Cause (James Dean) and The Wild One (Marlon Brando) both represented a break from 1950s

conformity

What criteria do we use to determine the greatness of an artwork like a film ?

consensus & perspective

Rickard Lester's A Hard Day's Night was shot as if it were a

documentary

In the 1950s these same low budget movies were called what?

drive in movies

In the 1950's with changing post war demographics (Baby Boom) and America's move to the suburbs this new type of theater became very popular

drive-ins

Why do Jack Lemon and Tony Curtis's characters dress like women in Some Like it Hot?

escape the mob