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1. Above-the-line - ANSWER ✓ Related to the film's production budget.
Reflecy the expected line item compensation for an official above-the-line
member's role in a given film project.
-Actors, Producers, Writers and Directors
2. Adolph Zukor - ANSWER ✓ Paramount man business filmmaker
3. All time low and high for box office - ANSWER ✓ 1946=all time high.
1962=all time low because of rise of television
4. All time low and high for ticket sales - ANSWER ✓ 1945=all time high.
1971=all time low
5. American how it began with lower classes - ANSWER ✓ Movies uniquely
American because it began with lower class. Coincided with the influx of
immigrants
6. AM&B - ANSWER ✓ American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.
-The company was distinguished with pioneering director D. W. Griffith and
such actors as Mary Pickford, Lillian Gish, and Lionel Barrymore.
7. Below-the-line expenses - ANSWER ✓ Variable cost in the budget
8. Birth of a Nation - ANSWER ✓ Contains many new cinematic innovations
and refinements, close-ups, montage, continuity editing, effects, and artistic
, advancements including a color sequence at the end. Single most important
and key film in history
-Formative influence on future films, longest film to date
-Creative basis of how all movie stories would be told
- D.W. Griffith: Directed "Birth of a Nation"
9. Black Maria - ANSWER ✓ 1st ever dedicated filmmaking structure studio
Types of films made: Scenic, Topicalis= Actualities
10.Cecil B. DeMille - ANSWER ✓ His films were distinguished by their epic
scale, and by his cinematic showmanship
11.Chaney - ANSWER ✓ Hunchback of Notre Dame. Phantom of the Opera
12.Characteristics of the Classic Hollywood Style: - ANSWER ✓ Emphasis on
the narrative of the story. EVERYTHING SUBSERVIENT TO SCRIPT.
Film grammar
-Synthesis to international styles
-Rule of Economy, Invisible style, Emphasis on clarity,
RKO - ANSWER ✓ Did not develop any sort of signature style, but
launched carers of Orson Welles and Walt Disney
13.R&D nature - ANSWER ✓ (Research and Development), Results in the
unpredictability of which movies will take what percentage of revenue
-Explains in many cases the cost overruns and the unpredictable public
response to its output
14.Sennett - ANSWER ✓ Founded Keystone Studios, pioneered cliche of silent
picture
-Actors that started career with him: Chaplin, Griffith ...
-Silent comedy, manic speed, crude pie in face humor, slapstick characters,
and tinkling piano
15.Soviet Montage - ANSWER ✓ Movement towards a high number of shots
faster cutting and more variety of shots
16.Strength of Hollywood movies - ANSWER ✓ International
,17.Studio styles - ANSWER ✓ Each studio had their own style and
characteristic touches which made it possible to know who they were, their
own "brand"
18.Studio System - ANSWER ✓ Means of film production and distribution
dominant in Hollywood from early 1930's- early 1950's
-Produce movies primarily on own filmmaking lots with creative personnel
under long-term contract
-Pursuing vertical integration through ownership or effective control of
distributions and movie theaters, guaranteeing additional sales of films
through manipulative booking techniques
19.Ticket price trends - ANSWER ✓ Gets higher every year
20.The Hollywood Ten - ANSWER ✓ Ten members of filmmaking industry
who refused to answer if they were members of the communist party when
asked by HUAC.
21.The Majors - ANSWER ✓ MGM, Paramount, Fox (20th Century Fox),
Warner Bros, RKO
-Accounted for 95% all box office
22.Trends in the 60's - ANSWER ✓ Musicals
23.The first motion pictures by Edison were popular for their: - ANSWER ✓
none of the above
24.A key pioneer in the science of motion picture technology, using horses and
trip wires to shoot a series of stills, was: - ANSWER ✓ Edward Muybridge
25.The man who standardized the format of 35mm film and 24 frames per
second was: - ANSWER ✓ William Dickson
26.One of the very first methods of showing motion pictures was the: -
ANSWER ✓ Kinetoscope
27.An early Victorian-era toy that showed pictures moving was called: -
ANSWER ✓ Zoetrope
, 28.The name for the early movie theaters was - ANSWER ✓ Nickelodeon
29.One of the key attributes that made movies particularly popular among the
immigrants in America is: - ANSWER ✓ Both of the above
30.The silent comedian know for his use of pathos that brought a vulnerable-
but-good-hearted complexity to his character was: - ANSWER ✓ Charles
Chaplin
31.The frozen-faced comedian was also known for his stunt work such as
having a building wall fall on him - ANSWER ✓ Buster Keaton
32.The most popular comedian of his era, he was known for his amazing stunt
work such as when he dangled out over a 10-story building in the movie
Safety Last. - ANSWER ✓ Harold Lloyd
33.Films from class: - ANSWER ✓
34.City Lights - ANSWER ✓ Director: Charlie Chaplin
Actors: Charlie Chaplin and Virginia Cherrill
Producer: sennett
Writer: chaplin
Costumer: chaplin
35.It Happened One Night - ANSWER ✓ Director: Frank Capra
Actors:Claudette Colbert, Clark Gable, Walter Connolly
Producer: Frank Carpra
Writer: Mack Sennett
Costumer:
36.Sunset Boulevard - ANSWER ✓ Director: Billy Wilder
Actors: Gloria Swanson, William Holden, Erich Von Stroheim, Nancy
Olson
Producer: Charles Brackett
Writer:
Costumer:
2025/2026 ACCURATE QUESTIONS
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<RECENT VERSION>
1. Above-the-line - ANSWER ✓ Related to the film's production budget.
Reflecy the expected line item compensation for an official above-the-line
member's role in a given film project.
-Actors, Producers, Writers and Directors
2. Adolph Zukor - ANSWER ✓ Paramount man business filmmaker
3. All time low and high for box office - ANSWER ✓ 1946=all time high.
1962=all time low because of rise of television
4. All time low and high for ticket sales - ANSWER ✓ 1945=all time high.
1971=all time low
5. American how it began with lower classes - ANSWER ✓ Movies uniquely
American because it began with lower class. Coincided with the influx of
immigrants
6. AM&B - ANSWER ✓ American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.
-The company was distinguished with pioneering director D. W. Griffith and
such actors as Mary Pickford, Lillian Gish, and Lionel Barrymore.
7. Below-the-line expenses - ANSWER ✓ Variable cost in the budget
8. Birth of a Nation - ANSWER ✓ Contains many new cinematic innovations
and refinements, close-ups, montage, continuity editing, effects, and artistic
, advancements including a color sequence at the end. Single most important
and key film in history
-Formative influence on future films, longest film to date
-Creative basis of how all movie stories would be told
- D.W. Griffith: Directed "Birth of a Nation"
9. Black Maria - ANSWER ✓ 1st ever dedicated filmmaking structure studio
Types of films made: Scenic, Topicalis= Actualities
10.Cecil B. DeMille - ANSWER ✓ His films were distinguished by their epic
scale, and by his cinematic showmanship
11.Chaney - ANSWER ✓ Hunchback of Notre Dame. Phantom of the Opera
12.Characteristics of the Classic Hollywood Style: - ANSWER ✓ Emphasis on
the narrative of the story. EVERYTHING SUBSERVIENT TO SCRIPT.
Film grammar
-Synthesis to international styles
-Rule of Economy, Invisible style, Emphasis on clarity,
RKO - ANSWER ✓ Did not develop any sort of signature style, but
launched carers of Orson Welles and Walt Disney
13.R&D nature - ANSWER ✓ (Research and Development), Results in the
unpredictability of which movies will take what percentage of revenue
-Explains in many cases the cost overruns and the unpredictable public
response to its output
14.Sennett - ANSWER ✓ Founded Keystone Studios, pioneered cliche of silent
picture
-Actors that started career with him: Chaplin, Griffith ...
-Silent comedy, manic speed, crude pie in face humor, slapstick characters,
and tinkling piano
15.Soviet Montage - ANSWER ✓ Movement towards a high number of shots
faster cutting and more variety of shots
16.Strength of Hollywood movies - ANSWER ✓ International
,17.Studio styles - ANSWER ✓ Each studio had their own style and
characteristic touches which made it possible to know who they were, their
own "brand"
18.Studio System - ANSWER ✓ Means of film production and distribution
dominant in Hollywood from early 1930's- early 1950's
-Produce movies primarily on own filmmaking lots with creative personnel
under long-term contract
-Pursuing vertical integration through ownership or effective control of
distributions and movie theaters, guaranteeing additional sales of films
through manipulative booking techniques
19.Ticket price trends - ANSWER ✓ Gets higher every year
20.The Hollywood Ten - ANSWER ✓ Ten members of filmmaking industry
who refused to answer if they were members of the communist party when
asked by HUAC.
21.The Majors - ANSWER ✓ MGM, Paramount, Fox (20th Century Fox),
Warner Bros, RKO
-Accounted for 95% all box office
22.Trends in the 60's - ANSWER ✓ Musicals
23.The first motion pictures by Edison were popular for their: - ANSWER ✓
none of the above
24.A key pioneer in the science of motion picture technology, using horses and
trip wires to shoot a series of stills, was: - ANSWER ✓ Edward Muybridge
25.The man who standardized the format of 35mm film and 24 frames per
second was: - ANSWER ✓ William Dickson
26.One of the very first methods of showing motion pictures was the: -
ANSWER ✓ Kinetoscope
27.An early Victorian-era toy that showed pictures moving was called: -
ANSWER ✓ Zoetrope
, 28.The name for the early movie theaters was - ANSWER ✓ Nickelodeon
29.One of the key attributes that made movies particularly popular among the
immigrants in America is: - ANSWER ✓ Both of the above
30.The silent comedian know for his use of pathos that brought a vulnerable-
but-good-hearted complexity to his character was: - ANSWER ✓ Charles
Chaplin
31.The frozen-faced comedian was also known for his stunt work such as
having a building wall fall on him - ANSWER ✓ Buster Keaton
32.The most popular comedian of his era, he was known for his amazing stunt
work such as when he dangled out over a 10-story building in the movie
Safety Last. - ANSWER ✓ Harold Lloyd
33.Films from class: - ANSWER ✓
34.City Lights - ANSWER ✓ Director: Charlie Chaplin
Actors: Charlie Chaplin and Virginia Cherrill
Producer: sennett
Writer: chaplin
Costumer: chaplin
35.It Happened One Night - ANSWER ✓ Director: Frank Capra
Actors:Claudette Colbert, Clark Gable, Walter Connolly
Producer: Frank Carpra
Writer: Mack Sennett
Costumer:
36.Sunset Boulevard - ANSWER ✓ Director: Billy Wilder
Actors: Gloria Swanson, William Holden, Erich Von Stroheim, Nancy
Olson
Producer: Charles Brackett
Writer:
Costumer:
