TFM 364A (History of Film Classics)
Midterm 1 Study Guide Exam UPDATED
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
This device displayed slide shows through slide projectors. Oil lamps lit up glass on which hand
drawn images and multiple projectors worked together to create these movements. - CORRECT
ANSWER Magic Lanterns
True or False: photographic images were eventually innovated into magic lantern shows, replacing
hand drawn images. - CORRECT ANSWER True
In 1889, this photography company began making cheap motion picture cameras, and introduced a
flexible film base photography. - CORRECT ANSWER Eastman Kodak
French scientist and chronophotographer who developed continuous photographic strip - CORRECT
ANSWER Etienne-Jules Marey
An ambitious businessman and inventor who specialized in electric power (incandescent light bulb,
sound recording/phonograph, mass communication, and motion pictures) and sought to invent a
movie camera. - CORRECT ANSWER Thomas Edison
A device with which one person could peep through a whole in the machine and watch moving
images: - CORRECT ANSWER Kinetoscope
With help from Edison, this inventor created the first Kinetoscope: - CORRECT
ANSWER William K. Dickson
Edison built this movie production studio to create content for the kinetoscope to sell. The content
was mainly filming famous people. - CORRECT ANSWER Black Maria
In what year did the first kinetoscope parlor open with 10 machines? - CORRECT
ANSWER 1894
, These two siblings were photographic equipment manufacturers who created the first Cinematographe
system - a projection system and theatrical space where people could watch movies. - CORRECT
ANSWER The Lumiere Brothers / Auguste and Louis Lumiere
True or False: The Lumière Brothers did not get any ideas from Edison's work and invented their own
devices to record and project movies. - CORRECT ANSWER False
True or False: The goal of The Lumière Brothers was to make a much lighter apparatus that allowed
them to go out into the world to record everyday life. - CORRECT ANSWER True
What year did The Lumière Brothers film 'Train Arriving at the Station' & 'Workers Leaving the
Factory'? - CORRECT ANSWER 1896
True or False: Movies/Films never became part of Vaudeville acts in the USA. - CORRECT
ANSWER False
True or False: The late 1890s was all about experimentation and trying to figure out how to capture
the public's attention and money with new spectacle. - CORRECT ANSWER True
Travelogues, War films, and news reels - these became something aligned with the term: - CORRECT
ANSWER Cinema of Attractions
True or False: at the beginning of the early 1900s, films became more about storytelling, adaptations,
comic, and dramatic narratives. - CORRECT ANSWER True
This prolific filmmaker sought to create tightly structured films that utilized cause & effect,
continuity, tension, suspense, action, and many of the themes and emotions that we still see in films
today. - CORRECT ANSWER Edwin S. Porter
A 1903 film by Edwin S. Porter that involved a group of outlaws taking a train hostage and steal from
it. - CORRECT ANSWER The Great Train Robbery
Midterm 1 Study Guide Exam UPDATED
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
This device displayed slide shows through slide projectors. Oil lamps lit up glass on which hand
drawn images and multiple projectors worked together to create these movements. - CORRECT
ANSWER Magic Lanterns
True or False: photographic images were eventually innovated into magic lantern shows, replacing
hand drawn images. - CORRECT ANSWER True
In 1889, this photography company began making cheap motion picture cameras, and introduced a
flexible film base photography. - CORRECT ANSWER Eastman Kodak
French scientist and chronophotographer who developed continuous photographic strip - CORRECT
ANSWER Etienne-Jules Marey
An ambitious businessman and inventor who specialized in electric power (incandescent light bulb,
sound recording/phonograph, mass communication, and motion pictures) and sought to invent a
movie camera. - CORRECT ANSWER Thomas Edison
A device with which one person could peep through a whole in the machine and watch moving
images: - CORRECT ANSWER Kinetoscope
With help from Edison, this inventor created the first Kinetoscope: - CORRECT
ANSWER William K. Dickson
Edison built this movie production studio to create content for the kinetoscope to sell. The content
was mainly filming famous people. - CORRECT ANSWER Black Maria
In what year did the first kinetoscope parlor open with 10 machines? - CORRECT
ANSWER 1894
, These two siblings were photographic equipment manufacturers who created the first Cinematographe
system - a projection system and theatrical space where people could watch movies. - CORRECT
ANSWER The Lumiere Brothers / Auguste and Louis Lumiere
True or False: The Lumière Brothers did not get any ideas from Edison's work and invented their own
devices to record and project movies. - CORRECT ANSWER False
True or False: The goal of The Lumière Brothers was to make a much lighter apparatus that allowed
them to go out into the world to record everyday life. - CORRECT ANSWER True
What year did The Lumière Brothers film 'Train Arriving at the Station' & 'Workers Leaving the
Factory'? - CORRECT ANSWER 1896
True or False: Movies/Films never became part of Vaudeville acts in the USA. - CORRECT
ANSWER False
True or False: The late 1890s was all about experimentation and trying to figure out how to capture
the public's attention and money with new spectacle. - CORRECT ANSWER True
Travelogues, War films, and news reels - these became something aligned with the term: - CORRECT
ANSWER Cinema of Attractions
True or False: at the beginning of the early 1900s, films became more about storytelling, adaptations,
comic, and dramatic narratives. - CORRECT ANSWER True
This prolific filmmaker sought to create tightly structured films that utilized cause & effect,
continuity, tension, suspense, action, and many of the themes and emotions that we still see in films
today. - CORRECT ANSWER Edwin S. Porter
A 1903 film by Edwin S. Porter that involved a group of outlaws taking a train hostage and steal from
it. - CORRECT ANSWER The Great Train Robbery
