COMM 370 EXAM 2 QUESTIONS VERIFIED ANSWERS
Blacklisting was an overt attempt by Hollywood studio executives to squash, or at least
cripple, the industry's trade unions. TRUE OR FALSE - Answers - True
This may have been the moving picture: - Answers - Occident Trotting
He is considered the "father of American film": - Answers - D.W. Griffith
This studio, on verge of collapsing, took a gamble on film and succeeded: - Answers -
Warner Brother Studios
American film, like free speech, has always had First Amendment protections. TRUE
OR FALSE - Answers - False
D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation was the first film in the world that was labeled an epic?
TRUE OR FALSE - Answers - False
He basically ended blacklisting in America: - Answers - Kirk Douglas
He established the Production Code Administration that would evaluate and censor
films: - Answers - Will H. Hayes
Filmmakers eventually brought their craft to Hollywood because: - Answers - It offered
more daylight hours.
It had an abundance of labor.
Lower taxes.
-All of the above
The Catholic Church became a major power in the censoring of films. TRUE OR FALSE
- Answers - True
Edwin Armstrong was declared by the courts "the father of radio." TRUE OR FALSE -
Answers - False
David Sarnoff invented mass broadcasting in America. TRUE OR FALSE - Answers -
True
Eleanor Roosevelt, who was a working member of the press, conducted the first press
conference ever held by a U.S. president's wife. TRUE OR FALSE - Answers - True
Orson Welles wanted to destroy the belief that radio was a voice from heaven. TRUE
OR FALSE - Answers - True
Blacklisting was an overt attempt by Hollywood studio executives to squash, or at least
cripple, the industry's trade unions. TRUE OR FALSE - Answers - True
This may have been the moving picture: - Answers - Occident Trotting
He is considered the "father of American film": - Answers - D.W. Griffith
This studio, on verge of collapsing, took a gamble on film and succeeded: - Answers -
Warner Brother Studios
American film, like free speech, has always had First Amendment protections. TRUE
OR FALSE - Answers - False
D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation was the first film in the world that was labeled an epic?
TRUE OR FALSE - Answers - False
He basically ended blacklisting in America: - Answers - Kirk Douglas
He established the Production Code Administration that would evaluate and censor
films: - Answers - Will H. Hayes
Filmmakers eventually brought their craft to Hollywood because: - Answers - It offered
more daylight hours.
It had an abundance of labor.
Lower taxes.
-All of the above
The Catholic Church became a major power in the censoring of films. TRUE OR FALSE
- Answers - True
Edwin Armstrong was declared by the courts "the father of radio." TRUE OR FALSE -
Answers - False
David Sarnoff invented mass broadcasting in America. TRUE OR FALSE - Answers -
True
Eleanor Roosevelt, who was a working member of the press, conducted the first press
conference ever held by a U.S. president's wife. TRUE OR FALSE - Answers - True
Orson Welles wanted to destroy the belief that radio was a voice from heaven. TRUE
OR FALSE - Answers - True
