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_____________ employed a wide variety of film techniques to bring passion and heightened suspense to his 1903 classic, The Great Train Robbery.

Edwin S. Porter

Narrative was first introduced to film by:

George Méliès

Buffeted by scandal, Hollywood established a self-censoring board, the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, and installed a former postmaster general as its head. The MPPDA was often simply called the:

Hays Office

The process of photography was first invented around 1816 by:

Joseph Nicéphore Niépce

The MPPDA established a set of guidelines for what was and was not acceptable in movies, called the:

Motion Picture Production Code

The 1948 Supreme Court decision that outlawed vertical integration is called the:

Paramount Decision

The control of a film's production, distribution, and exhibition by a movie studio is called:

Vertical Integration

Modern filmmaking characterized by reduced risk taking and formulaic movies is called:

blockbuster mentality

The Lumière brothers developed a device that would both shoot and project motion pictures. They called it the:

cinematographe

Movies that can be described in one line and are thus easy to promote and market are called:

concept films

The process of recording images on polished metal plates covered with an emulsion of silver iodide is called:

daguerreotype

The Lumière brothers' most important contribution to the development of motion pictures was:

demonstrating that large audiences would sit in a darkened room and watch movies projected on a screen

Showing movies in a theater is known as

exhibition

The large bulk of annual ticket sales, 80% to 90%, are generated by movies produced by:

major studios and corporate independents

Studios financing their own films with their own money are called:

majors

The Great Train Robbery is often credited with setting off the explosion of movie houses around 1905. The cost was five cents to see a movie at one of these:

nickelodeons

People can see motion in rapidly moving pictures because of the physiological phenomenon known as:

persistence of vision

In 1908, Thomas Edison united the 10 companies that held all the necessary patents for film production into the Motion Picture Patents Company (MPPC), which was often simply called the:

trust

The early films of Edison and the Lumière brothers:

were short reproductions of reality shot in fixed frame

Eadweard Muybridge invented the _____________ to project his slides of people and animals in a way that would give the appearance of motion.

zoopraxiscope