Film Exam 1 questions with verified
answers graded A+
Celluloid - correct answer ✔✔The earliest projected motion pictures were made possible by the
exposure of photographs onto:
Etienne Jules Marey - correct answer ✔✔Which Frenchman provided an important precursor of
motion pictures with his invention of a photographic gun?
Cinematographe - correct answer ✔✔Which influential early camera also doubled as a
projector?
Because other inventors found ways to project films onto a screen. - correct answer ✔✔Edison's
Kinetoscope viewing box was initially highly profitable, but its popularity declined:
C. Francis Jenkins and Thomas Armat - correct answer ✔✔The Vitascope, a projector
manufactured and marketed by Thomas Edison, was invented and initially exhibited by:
Scenics - correct answer ✔✔Short travelogue films offering views of distant "exotic" lands were
originally known as:
Germany - correct answer ✔✔Which of the following nations was not one of the three primary
film-producing countries during cinema's first decade?
Special-effects cinematography - correct answer ✔✔Early English cinemas became famous for
its:
, Exotic dance films - correct answer ✔✔What type of motion picture did not help to revive
audience interest in America films around 1898?
Uncle Tom's Cabin - correct answer ✔✔Which Edwin S. Porter film used printed intertitles for
what is believed to be the first time in America cinema history?
Bolivia - correct answer ✔✔Locally-produced motion pictures began appearing in each of the
following countries prior to 1900 exept:
True - correct answer ✔✔T/F The cinema was one of the first significant technologies pioneered
during the industrial revolution, later followed by the telephone and the automobile.
True - correct answer ✔✔T/F There is no single inventor of motion pictures; the cinema instead
came about through an accumulation of contributions from inventors worldwide.
True - correct answer ✔✔T/F The 35mm film gauge pioneered by W.K.L. Dickson in the 1890s
remains the standard theatrical gauge today.
False - correct answer ✔✔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.
False - correct answer ✔✔T/F Most films created during the 1890s contain between five and ten
shots.
True - correct answer ✔✔T/F The first exhibitors of projected motion pictures in many of the
world's countries were put on by Lumiere representatives.
True - correct answer ✔✔T/F Georges Melies was an early master of sophisticated stop-motion
effects.
answers graded A+
Celluloid - correct answer ✔✔The earliest projected motion pictures were made possible by the
exposure of photographs onto:
Etienne Jules Marey - correct answer ✔✔Which Frenchman provided an important precursor of
motion pictures with his invention of a photographic gun?
Cinematographe - correct answer ✔✔Which influential early camera also doubled as a
projector?
Because other inventors found ways to project films onto a screen. - correct answer ✔✔Edison's
Kinetoscope viewing box was initially highly profitable, but its popularity declined:
C. Francis Jenkins and Thomas Armat - correct answer ✔✔The Vitascope, a projector
manufactured and marketed by Thomas Edison, was invented and initially exhibited by:
Scenics - correct answer ✔✔Short travelogue films offering views of distant "exotic" lands were
originally known as:
Germany - correct answer ✔✔Which of the following nations was not one of the three primary
film-producing countries during cinema's first decade?
Special-effects cinematography - correct answer ✔✔Early English cinemas became famous for
its:
, Exotic dance films - correct answer ✔✔What type of motion picture did not help to revive
audience interest in America films around 1898?
Uncle Tom's Cabin - correct answer ✔✔Which Edwin S. Porter film used printed intertitles for
what is believed to be the first time in America cinema history?
Bolivia - correct answer ✔✔Locally-produced motion pictures began appearing in each of the
following countries prior to 1900 exept:
True - correct answer ✔✔T/F The cinema was one of the first significant technologies pioneered
during the industrial revolution, later followed by the telephone and the automobile.
True - correct answer ✔✔T/F There is no single inventor of motion pictures; the cinema instead
came about through an accumulation of contributions from inventors worldwide.
True - correct answer ✔✔T/F The 35mm film gauge pioneered by W.K.L. Dickson in the 1890s
remains the standard theatrical gauge today.
False - correct answer ✔✔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.
False - correct answer ✔✔T/F Most films created during the 1890s contain between five and ten
shots.
True - correct answer ✔✔T/F The first exhibitors of projected motion pictures in many of the
world's countries were put on by Lumiere representatives.
True - correct answer ✔✔T/F Georges Melies was an early master of sophisticated stop-motion
effects.
