MAS 101 Exam 2 UPDATED ACTUAL
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
Eadweard Muybridge - CORRECT ANSWER - United States motion-picture pioneer
remembered for his pictures of running horses taken with a series of still cameras (1830-1904)
George Eastman - CORRECT ANSWER - invented the Kodak camera and rolled film
Thomas Edison and William Kennedy Dickson - CORRECT ANSWER - Further
development of film
Lumiere Brothers - CORRECT ANSWER - First projected movie; played in coffee shops
George Melies - CORRECT ANSWER - father of special effects; trip to the moon
Edwin S. Porter - CORRECT ANSWER - directed The Great Train Robbery; placed
camera in new places (cutting)
D.W. Griffith - CORRECT ANSWER - groundbreaking American film director, directed
The Birth of a Nation; jump cuts
Alice Guy Blache - CORRECT ANSWER - First female director; first all black cast
Buster Keaton - CORRECT ANSWER - an American comic actor and filmmaker.He was
best known for his silent films, in which his trademark was physical comedy with a consistently
stoic, deadpan expression, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face".
Charlie Chaplin - CORRECT ANSWER - Hollywood legend
, Mary Pickford - CORRECT ANSWER - one of the founders of the United Artists
Rudolph Valentino - CORRECT ANSWER - heartthrob
Synergy - CORRECT ANSWER - The cross-promotion of media holdings and other
revenue generators
42.5 billion dollars - CORRECT ANSWER - Film industry is worth
97 - CORRECT ANSWER - ____% of independent films don't profit
Soviet Montage - CORRECT ANSWER - An alternative to continuity editing, this style of
editing was developed in silent Soviet cinema, based on the theory that editing should exploit the
difference between shots to generate intellectual and emotional responses in the audience.
Propaganda - CORRECT ANSWER - information, especially of a biased or misleading
nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.
Sargent York - CORRECT ANSWER - True story about a solider that won Best actor and
Best editing at the academy awards
John Wayne - CORRECT ANSWER - Biggest male actor of the 1950s, generally known
for westerns and war movies
representation - CORRECT ANSWER - Who is onscreen and who is offscreen making
decisions. (Gender and race issues)
Printers - CORRECT ANSWER - Started journalism w four page weekly journals.
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
Eadweard Muybridge - CORRECT ANSWER - United States motion-picture pioneer
remembered for his pictures of running horses taken with a series of still cameras (1830-1904)
George Eastman - CORRECT ANSWER - invented the Kodak camera and rolled film
Thomas Edison and William Kennedy Dickson - CORRECT ANSWER - Further
development of film
Lumiere Brothers - CORRECT ANSWER - First projected movie; played in coffee shops
George Melies - CORRECT ANSWER - father of special effects; trip to the moon
Edwin S. Porter - CORRECT ANSWER - directed The Great Train Robbery; placed
camera in new places (cutting)
D.W. Griffith - CORRECT ANSWER - groundbreaking American film director, directed
The Birth of a Nation; jump cuts
Alice Guy Blache - CORRECT ANSWER - First female director; first all black cast
Buster Keaton - CORRECT ANSWER - an American comic actor and filmmaker.He was
best known for his silent films, in which his trademark was physical comedy with a consistently
stoic, deadpan expression, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face".
Charlie Chaplin - CORRECT ANSWER - Hollywood legend
, Mary Pickford - CORRECT ANSWER - one of the founders of the United Artists
Rudolph Valentino - CORRECT ANSWER - heartthrob
Synergy - CORRECT ANSWER - The cross-promotion of media holdings and other
revenue generators
42.5 billion dollars - CORRECT ANSWER - Film industry is worth
97 - CORRECT ANSWER - ____% of independent films don't profit
Soviet Montage - CORRECT ANSWER - An alternative to continuity editing, this style of
editing was developed in silent Soviet cinema, based on the theory that editing should exploit the
difference between shots to generate intellectual and emotional responses in the audience.
Propaganda - CORRECT ANSWER - information, especially of a biased or misleading
nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.
Sargent York - CORRECT ANSWER - True story about a solider that won Best actor and
Best editing at the academy awards
John Wayne - CORRECT ANSWER - Biggest male actor of the 1950s, generally known
for westerns and war movies
representation - CORRECT ANSWER - Who is onscreen and who is offscreen making
decisions. (Gender and race issues)
Printers - CORRECT ANSWER - Started journalism w four page weekly journals.
