Film Exam 1 UPDATED Exam Questions
and CORRECT Answers
The earliest projected motion pictures were made possible by the exposure of photographs
onto: - Correct Answer- Celluloid
Which Frenchman provided an important precursor of motion pictures with his invention of a
photographic gun? - Correct Answer- Etienne Jules Marey
Which influential early camera also doubled as a projector? - Correct Answer-
Cinematographe
Edison's Kinetoscope viewing box was initially highly profitable, but its popularity declined:
- Correct Answer- Because other inventors found ways to project films onto a screen.
The Vitascope, a projector manufactured and marketed by Thomas Edison, was invented and
initially exhibited by: - Correct Answer- C. Francis Jenkins and Thomas Armat
Short travelogue films offering views of distant "exotic" lands were originally known as: -
Correct Answer- Scenics
Which of the following nations was not one of the three primary film-producing countries
during cinema's first decade? - Correct Answer- Germany
Early English cinemas became famous for its: - Correct Answer- Special-effects
cinematography
What type of motion picture did not help to revive audience interest in America films around
1898? - Correct Answer- Exotic dance films
Which Edwin S. Porter film used printed intertitles for what is believed to be the first time in
America cinema history? - Correct Answer- Uncle Tom's Cabin
, Locally-produced motion pictures began appearing in each of the following countries prior to
1900 exept: - Correct Answer- Bolivia
T/F The cinema was one of the first significant technologies pioneered during the industrial
revolution, later followed by the telephone and the automobile. - Correct Answer- True
T/F There is no single inventor of motion pictures; the cinema instead came about through an
accumulation of contributions from inventors worldwide. - Correct Answer- True
T/F The 35mm film gauge pioneered by W.K.L. Dickson in the 1890s remains the standard
theatrical gauge today. - Correct Answer- True
T/F The fiction film was the most well received type of motion picture until roughly 1900,
when it was supplanted in popularity by the actual. - Correct Answer- False
T/F Most films created during the 1890s contain between five and ten shots. - Correct
Answer- False
T/F The first exhibitors of projected motion pictures in many of the world's countries were
put on by Lumiere representatives. - Correct Answer- True
T/F Georges Melies was an early master of sophisticated stop-motion effects. - Correct
Answer- True
T/F Copyright laws passed in the late 1890s helped curb the illegal duplication of film prints
and enabled the top U.S. film producers to gain control over the circulation of their movies. -
Correct Answer- False
Which of the following was not a significant factor in the expansion of the French film
industry in the middle 1900s? - Correct Answer- The popularity of imported American films.
The French screen comic Max Linder was important to early film history because: - Correct
Answer- His films reflected the French film industry's bid for middle-class respectability.
and CORRECT Answers
The earliest projected motion pictures were made possible by the exposure of photographs
onto: - Correct Answer- Celluloid
Which Frenchman provided an important precursor of motion pictures with his invention of a
photographic gun? - Correct Answer- Etienne Jules Marey
Which influential early camera also doubled as a projector? - Correct Answer-
Cinematographe
Edison's Kinetoscope viewing box was initially highly profitable, but its popularity declined:
- Correct Answer- Because other inventors found ways to project films onto a screen.
The Vitascope, a projector manufactured and marketed by Thomas Edison, was invented and
initially exhibited by: - Correct Answer- C. Francis Jenkins and Thomas Armat
Short travelogue films offering views of distant "exotic" lands were originally known as: -
Correct Answer- Scenics
Which of the following nations was not one of the three primary film-producing countries
during cinema's first decade? - Correct Answer- Germany
Early English cinemas became famous for its: - Correct Answer- Special-effects
cinematography
What type of motion picture did not help to revive audience interest in America films around
1898? - Correct Answer- Exotic dance films
Which Edwin S. Porter film used printed intertitles for what is believed to be the first time in
America cinema history? - Correct Answer- Uncle Tom's Cabin
, Locally-produced motion pictures began appearing in each of the following countries prior to
1900 exept: - Correct Answer- Bolivia
T/F The cinema was one of the first significant technologies pioneered during the industrial
revolution, later followed by the telephone and the automobile. - Correct Answer- True
T/F There is no single inventor of motion pictures; the cinema instead came about through an
accumulation of contributions from inventors worldwide. - Correct Answer- True
T/F The 35mm film gauge pioneered by W.K.L. Dickson in the 1890s remains the standard
theatrical gauge today. - Correct Answer- True
T/F The fiction film was the most well received type of motion picture until roughly 1900,
when it was supplanted in popularity by the actual. - Correct Answer- False
T/F Most films created during the 1890s contain between five and ten shots. - Correct
Answer- False
T/F The first exhibitors of projected motion pictures in many of the world's countries were
put on by Lumiere representatives. - Correct Answer- True
T/F Georges Melies was an early master of sophisticated stop-motion effects. - Correct
Answer- True
T/F Copyright laws passed in the late 1890s helped curb the illegal duplication of film prints
and enabled the top U.S. film producers to gain control over the circulation of their movies. -
Correct Answer- False
Which of the following was not a significant factor in the expansion of the French film
industry in the middle 1900s? - Correct Answer- The popularity of imported American films.
The French screen comic Max Linder was important to early film history because: - Correct
Answer- His films reflected the French film industry's bid for middle-class respectability.
