Chapter 8 Mass Comm Quiz

What is a "talkie"?

A movie that had sound/words instead of background music or silence

India's movie industry is popularly known as _________. The movies in this style usually include big musical numbers, like the examples we watched in class.

Bollywood

From the 1930's Production Code, give at least one specific example of something that it attempted to regulate

The Production Code attempted to regulate the amount of firearms in a film. Firearms were only to be used when needed. They were violent and the Code said to not use them unnecessarily

Explain "whitewashing" as it applies to the movie industry

When there were positions for colored actors and white actors would play them instead it was called "whitewashing"

A building with a large number of smaller theaters grouped together, replacing the large movie palaces of the early years, is known as which of the following? a. multiplex b. Cinerama c. blockbuster d. Hollywood Ten

a

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow was a significant movie for which of the following reasons? a. It was the top grossing movie of 2004 b. It was the first major American movie to be filmed with all digital sets and backgrounds c. It was the most positively reviewed movie of 2004 d. all of the above

b

The blacklist of the 1940s and 1950s was driven by which of the following? a. a desire to increase movie profits b. a fear of communism c. a fear of terrorism d. none of the above

b

The film that created the idea of the summer blockbuster was which of the following? a. Gone With the Wind b. Jaws c. Star Wars d. Superman Returns

b

The movie High School Musical 3: Senior Year was a profitable hit because: a. it had a big name cast of starts and a big budget b. it had a small budget, lots of product tie-ins, and high video sales c. it was released in 3-D which allowed theaters to charge more for tickets d. You can't fool me; High School Musical 3 was a box office flop

b

Which of the following was the movie that sold the most tickets of all time? a. Titanic b. Gone With the Wind c. Star Wars d. Avatar

b

Why did the movie industry develop The Production Code to self-censor movies? a. Because Hollywood wanted to be responsible and not produce films that would lead to immoral behavior b. Because many states, communities, even the federal government were threatening to set up censorship boards that might have inconsistent standards of what they would or would not accept c. Because actors and actresses had protested having to do nude scenes in films d. Because talking films seemed much more explicit to audiences than did silent films

b

In the 1930s and 1940s, the studios sometimes required theaters to schedule a large number of lesser movies in order to get one or two major films. This practice was known as which of the following? a. pickup b. right of first refusal c. block booking d. sliding scale

c

One of Hollywood's responses to the rise of television was to do which of the following? a. start making more musicals b. start controlling costs by making lower-budget movies c. start making larger-than-life movies d. start basing movies on high-brow plays and novels

c

The Bechdel Test for Women in Film was designed to: a. see how much violence is directed against women in movies b. determine if women are better actors than men c. test whether women have a meaningful presence in a movie d. figure out if women are more suited to directing movies than men

c

Which of the following was the first major movie with multiple scenes and a plot a. The Jazz Singer b. Gone With the Wind c. The Great Train Robbery d. E.T.

c

Edward Muybridge and Etienne Marey are famous for which of the following? a. They called television "a vast wasteland" b. They co-chaired the House Subcommittee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) c. They conducted early experiments on depicting motion with photos d. They were the founding members of the first disco group to have a record on the Billboard Hot 100

c.

Movie profitability is determined by which of the following? a. box office receipts b. home video sales c. the budget for making the film d. all of the above

d

Give two examples of ancillary or secondary revenue sources for movie producers. Remember, Domestic Box Office does not count because it is a PRIMARY revenue source

home video toys

Early Edison "peepshow" projectors in nickelodeons were known as ______?

kinetoscopes