EXAM 2
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
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
T/F Russian director Sergei Eisenstein was sent to Europe, Mexico, and the United States to study the technology of sound to advance the Soviet film industry.
True
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:
Wide-screen Technicolor epics and musicals
Welles and screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz created the ___________ to move the plot quickly.
montage
Cool colors of blue and green invoke a feeling that is:
Distant and dispassionate
As a young man in the late 1920's Alfred Hitchcock studied film in Germany where he became influenced by what artistic genre?
Expressionism
T/F Film Noir continued to use the popular Technicolor film stock and camera for shooting.
False
T/F Hollywood opted for a square screen format to help compete against television.
False
T/F Triumph of the Will employed one static camera to photograph a Nazi event that had been staged intentionally for the camera.
False
T/F Welles pioneered the sound device of linking a complex montage sequence through related sounds or phrases, which became known as the thunder-mix.
False
T/F Alfred Hitchcock refused offers from Hollywood until a stipulation giving him a percent of his films' gross proceeds was aded to his contract.
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 is the only actor to have directed himself to a Best Actor Oscar?
Laurence Olivier 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
Which film directed by William Wyler showed the struggles and courage of British families during the German "Blitz" in World War II?
"Mrs. Miniver"
This film illustrated the growing conflict between teens and parents.
"Rebel Without a Cause"
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"
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"
Which of the following elements characterize a Film Noir?
-Low key lighting with deep shadows and claustrophobic framing -Flashbacks so the protagonist discovers the point of his downfall -A male protagonist's fascination with a "femme fatale"
This technology, popular today, was experimented with greatly in the 1950s:
3-D
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
Italian dictator Benito Mussolini created which studio in 1937 which became one of the largest in Europe and still continues today?
Cinecittá
Scenery, costumes and props all have a specific designers however, lighting is designed by the:
Cinematographer
Which Visual Element reinforces the actor's interpretation of the character?
Costumes
Diagonal lines invoke a feeling that is:
Diagonal lines invoke a feeling that is:
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?
Disembodies hands holding candelabras
Cinema is an art form based primarily on - what?
Images
The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) headed by Joseph McCarthy was created to:
Investigate communist propaganda in Hollywood
Which director was the son of a famous impressionist painter and grew up in Paris in a loving, artistic environment?
Jean Renoir
T/F RKO offered Orson Welles a two picture deal with complete artistic control when he was 24 years old
True
Warm colors of red, yellow and orange invoke a feeling that is:
Passionate, loving and inviting
The objects held in an actor's hands are called:
Props
The physical environment of a scene including walls, floors, ground, furnishings and decorations is called:
Scenery
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
Curved lines invoke a feeling that is:
Soft, feminine and inviting
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
T/F Citizen Kane is the story of the American dream gone wrong.
True
T/F John Huston's films deal with human frailty.
True
Which director could not accept his Oscar because he was flying a bombing mission over Germany?
William Wyler
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