CTVA 100 Film, Web, Tv Study Guide
correctly answered to pass
kinetograph - correct answer ✔✔William Dickson's Kodak camera which he used to make a
motion picture camera that took 40 photographs a second. Used to film all types of theatrical
performances.
kinetoscope - correct answer ✔✔Instead of a film being projected, it was run through this- a
sort of peep show device. Became popular feature in arcades, vaudeville balls, and big-city
parlors.
zoopraxiscope - correct answer ✔✔machine for projecting slides onto a distant surface invented
by Edward Muybridge
persistence of vision - correct answer ✔✔When the images our eyes gather are retained in the
brain for about 1/24 of a second.
daguerreotype - correct answer ✔✔process of recording images on polished metal plates,
usually copper, covered with a thin layer of silver iodide emulsion
calotype - correct answer ✔✔used translucent paper from which several prints could be made
exhibition - correct answer ✔✔exhibitors make much of their money on concession sales of
items. One-half of all screens are now owned by a studio.. For ex: Sony owns Sony/Loews
Theaters, Sony-IMAX Theaters, Magic Johnson Theaters, and Loews-Stars Theaters
Hollywood Blacklist - correct answer ✔✔Artists banned from working if they were a part of the
communist party
, Paramount Decision - correct answer ✔✔Vertical Integration was ruled illegal, as was block
booking. Studios were forced to sell off their exhibition businesses
Motion Picture Code - correct answer ✔✔forbade the use of profanity, limited bedroom scenes
to married coupes, required that skimpy outfits be replaced by more complete costumes,
delineated the length of screen kisses, ruled out scenes that ridiculed public officials or religious
leaders, and outlowed a series of words from "God" to "nuts," all enforced by a $25,000 fine.
MPPC - correct answer ✔✔Founded in 1908 by Thomas Edison. Stands for the Motion Picture
Patents Company
director - correct answer ✔✔directs the film
DCP - correct answer ✔✔Digital Cinema Package
Lumiere Bros - correct answer ✔✔In 1805 they patented their cinematographe - device that
both photographed and projected action
Edwin Porter - correct answer ✔✔An Edison Company cameraman, saw that film could be an
even better storyteller with more artistic use of camera placement and editing. His 12 minute
film The Great Train Robbery was the first movie to use editing, inter cutting of scenes, and a
mobile camera to tell a tale.
majors - correct answer ✔✔finance their films primarily through the profits of their own
business - Warner Bros, CColumbia, Paramount, 20th Century Fox, Universal, MGM/UA and
Disney
mini majors - correct answer ✔✔include Miramax, Artisan, Cannon, Lorimar, and New Line
correctly answered to pass
kinetograph - correct answer ✔✔William Dickson's Kodak camera which he used to make a
motion picture camera that took 40 photographs a second. Used to film all types of theatrical
performances.
kinetoscope - correct answer ✔✔Instead of a film being projected, it was run through this- a
sort of peep show device. Became popular feature in arcades, vaudeville balls, and big-city
parlors.
zoopraxiscope - correct answer ✔✔machine for projecting slides onto a distant surface invented
by Edward Muybridge
persistence of vision - correct answer ✔✔When the images our eyes gather are retained in the
brain for about 1/24 of a second.
daguerreotype - correct answer ✔✔process of recording images on polished metal plates,
usually copper, covered with a thin layer of silver iodide emulsion
calotype - correct answer ✔✔used translucent paper from which several prints could be made
exhibition - correct answer ✔✔exhibitors make much of their money on concession sales of
items. One-half of all screens are now owned by a studio.. For ex: Sony owns Sony/Loews
Theaters, Sony-IMAX Theaters, Magic Johnson Theaters, and Loews-Stars Theaters
Hollywood Blacklist - correct answer ✔✔Artists banned from working if they were a part of the
communist party
, Paramount Decision - correct answer ✔✔Vertical Integration was ruled illegal, as was block
booking. Studios were forced to sell off their exhibition businesses
Motion Picture Code - correct answer ✔✔forbade the use of profanity, limited bedroom scenes
to married coupes, required that skimpy outfits be replaced by more complete costumes,
delineated the length of screen kisses, ruled out scenes that ridiculed public officials or religious
leaders, and outlowed a series of words from "God" to "nuts," all enforced by a $25,000 fine.
MPPC - correct answer ✔✔Founded in 1908 by Thomas Edison. Stands for the Motion Picture
Patents Company
director - correct answer ✔✔directs the film
DCP - correct answer ✔✔Digital Cinema Package
Lumiere Bros - correct answer ✔✔In 1805 they patented their cinematographe - device that
both photographed and projected action
Edwin Porter - correct answer ✔✔An Edison Company cameraman, saw that film could be an
even better storyteller with more artistic use of camera placement and editing. His 12 minute
film The Great Train Robbery was the first movie to use editing, inter cutting of scenes, and a
mobile camera to tell a tale.
majors - correct answer ✔✔finance their films primarily through the profits of their own
business - Warner Bros, CColumbia, Paramount, 20th Century Fox, Universal, MGM/UA and
Disney
mini majors - correct answer ✔✔include Miramax, Artisan, Cannon, Lorimar, and New Line
