History and Film Final
Match with year: Mughal India
1526-1857
Match with year: Colonialism
1600s-1900s
The Lumiere Brothers screened their first piece "Arrival of a Train at la Ciotat" on December 28,:
1895
Match with year: Bombay's first public screening
1896
Match with year: Partition of Bengal
1905
Years Bombay Talkies was in business:
1934-1954
Match with year: Sholay
1975
Experts in literature, dance, music and erotic arts. First performers of Indian music and art recorded through mechanical means.
Courtesan
Director: Yash Chopra Year: 1993 Psychological romantic thriller -Shah Rukh Khan plays an obsessive lover of a "given away" woman
Darr (Fear)
Director: Naresh Mitra Year: 1928 Film based off the Sharat Chandra Chattapadhyay novel, first film adaptation of the novel
Devdas (Silent film)
Bombay Talkies was co-founded by silent film era actress ___, married to Himansu Rai with whom she shot one of the longest kissing scenes in movie history.
Devika Rani
India's first filmmaker of a narrative motion picture was:
Dhundiraj Govind Phalke
Sound that is heard within the movie (character voices, sounds of objects in the film, "seeable sounds")
Diegetic sound
Director: Yash Chopra Year: 1995 "The Sincere One Takes the Bride" -Family Romance film, took over Sholay -Raj (SRK) and Simran (Kajol) meet and fall in love on a trip through Europe -One of first films that focus on the woman perspective
Dilwale Dulhonia Le Jayenge (DDLJ)
Director: Chandra Barot Year: 1978 Crime thriller, slum-dweller who resembles the powerful crime boss is asked by law enforcement to masquerade as him to gain information and act as an informant to track down the root of the criminal organization.
Don
Only child of 1st PM Nehru, Married congress politician Feroze Gandhi, Institutes far left, centralized development program and starts Green Revolution to increase food production.
Indira Gandhi
Pakistan was founded as an ____ democracy.
Islamic
A female dancer who was only in the film for an item number, which had no significant correlation to the plot, usually took place in a bar or club and was only there for the length of the song.
Item girl
Director: Feroz Khan Year: 1986 Drugs, gangsters, and a woman affect the lives of a dedicated police officer and his wayward brother. -Starring: Anil Kapoor & Sridevi
Janbaaz
The first Prime Minister of India was:
Jawaharlal Nehru
Director: Vijay Anand Year: 1967 Spy/ heist thriller, similar to James Bond
Jewel Thief
Name two actresses from the 80s and 90s in Bollywood:
Kajol & Sridevi
Director: J.L. Freer Hunt Year: 1933 Bilingual film, joint production among India, Germany and United Kingdom. The girl falls in love with the neighboring prince, but her father disapproves (forbidden love). -Starring Himansu Rai and Devika Rani, and featured India's longest kissing scene between the two stars.
Karma
Turf war between Pakistan and India, they have fought 3 wars including the Indo-Pakistani Wars of 1947 & 1965 and the Kargil War of 1999. Currently under permanent military occupation.
Kashmir conflict
Tamil language cinema, based in Kodambakkam, neighborhood of Chennai
Kollywood
One of the most recorded artists in the film industry.
Lata Mangeshkar
Some themes with which the characters of Devdas grapple
Love, class, gender
Name three directors from the 80s and 90s in Bollywood:
Mani Ratnam, Yash Chopra & Muzaffar Ali
Director: Mehboob Year: 1957 Single mother must overcome hardship to feed children. Though challenged, she keeps the ideals of a strong Indian woman.
Mother India
Director: K. Asif Year: 1960 Similar to the classic Romeo and Juliet, a prince and dancer fall in love but her father doesn't approve.
Mughal-E-Azam
Nigeria's film industry
Nollywood
Sound that is not heard within the movie (Narrator or mood music)
Non-diegetic sound
Most of Kashmir's population is Muslim
Pakistan's reason for Kashmir
What theatre tradition directly influenced early Indian cinema?
Parsi theatre
Franz Osten's connection to Bombay Talkies?
Partner with Himansu Rai and directs the studio's first 15 films with them.
Device that connects audio and visual elements (mechanical interlock)
Phono-cinematographe
Two actors from the Indian Silent film ear
Prithviraj Kapoor and Khalil
The intro of sound in cinema had what effect of foreign films in India?
Sound collapsed the market for films produced abroad.
The Cold War is characterized by an arms race and struggle for influence between which two post-World War II powers?
Soviet Union and USA
Name a few item girls:
Sunny Leone, Jacqueline Fernadez & Kareena Kapoor
One of the final contributors to the Bengali Renaissance intellectual movement, connected with Theosophy, birth of yoga practices as we know it, millenarian movement
Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902)
Seeing sound and tasting a color (mixing of senses)
Synesthesia
In the 1950s, India was a member of what power bloc:
The Non-Aligned Movement
Director: Ferdinand Zecca Year: 1903 French film, used PATHECOLOR to give a bit of color and definition to the slides.
The Passion: Life and Death of Christ
The word "Swadeshi," a Hindi word meaning "Home country," refers to:
The boycott of British goods
Director who set the style for late 80s and early 90s, used international locations, wealth and super elite subjects:
Yash Chopra
Sepoy Soldiers were ___ Mercenaries
Indigenous/ high caste
First Hindi film of the sound era was:
Alam ara (1931)
Director: Ardeshir Irani Year: 1931 First Indian talkie produced, translated "Ornament of the World"
Alam-ara
Bombay Talkies was the founding studio of these famous actors/ actresses
Ashok Kumar, Mudhubala & Dilip Kumar
India gained its Independence from Britain:
August 14, 1947
Two movie studios from the early sound era:
Bombay Talkies and Imperial Movietone
What is one of the things that the Cinematograph Act of 1952 accomplished?
Censorship of movies and categorizing them (U, U/A, A or S)
Names of early motion-picture cameras and projection devices:
Cinematograph and Praxinoscope
How does audience perspective change in the late 80s and early 90s era?
Expansion of TV viewership, not just viewers but consumers (start of consumerism)
Star of "Mother India" (1957)
Fatima Rashid (aka: Nargis)
The name "India" comes to the English language from the:
Greek
Founders of Bombay Talkies
Himansu Rai & Devika Rani
What are the three labels for the language used in Indian commercial/ Bollywood cinema
Hindustani, Urdu and Hindi
What studio made the first talkie?
Imperial Movietone
British India's partition in 1947 created countries:
India and Pakistan
Maharaja in Kashmir had handed over various powers to India in 1947.
India's reason for Kashmir
Founder of Brahmo Samaj (Hindu Reform movement), an early thinker of the Bengali Renaissance, "god is one", influenced by Islamic theology
Raj Ram Mohan Roy
Director: Phalke Year: 1913 Full full length Indian film, where King Harischandra upsets the gods and his wife is framed for murder
Raja Harishchandra
The Bengali Renaissance was characterized by:
Religious and Political reform
Son of Indira Gandhi, Institutes social reforms, "Remove Poverty!" becomes "Remove the poor!"
Sanjay Gandhi
Wrote the 1917 novel, Devdas (which was made into a film(s) and has 13 versions)
Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
Biggest Bollywood star of the contemporary era:
Shah Rukh Khan
Director: Franz Osten Year: 1928 A man tries to rescue his kidnapped sister after a prince enslaves her.
Shiraz
A far right Indian regional political party based on pro-Marathi ideology and was founded in 1966.
Shiv sena
Director: G.P. Sippy Year: 1975 Relies on strong lead roles and action, similar to an American Western, film based audio-visuals vocabularies
Sholay Flames
Director: Raj Kapoor Year: 1955 Story of country boy who goes to the big city to make money but ends up taking a darker path.
Shree 420
Director: Muzaffar Ali Year: 1981 Story of a courtesan and her rise to fame after being kidnapped from her family and sold to Khanum Jaan -Rekha main role as the courtesan
Umrao Jaan
A language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region
Vernacular