MCOMM 224 Final Exam questions
well answered graded A+
What decade is considered to have marked the true beginning of the motion picture medium: -
correct answer ✔✔1890s
The Edison employee credited with the "hands-on" invention of motion picture technology: -
correct answer ✔✔Dickson
(T or F) Edison's kinetoscope projected motion pictures onto a screen. - correct answer
✔✔False
The "heroes" of Birth of a Nation: - correct answer ✔✔The Klu Klux Klan
Which of the following is associated with Mack Sennett: - correct answer ✔✔→Keystone Kops
→Film Comedy
→Charlie Chaplin's first short films as a performer
(T or F) The original title of Birth of a Nation was "The Clansman." - correct answer ✔✔True
The director of The Great Train Robbery: - correct answer ✔✔Porter
The actress who frequently starred in D.W. Griffith films: - correct answer ✔✔Gish
Which film was not directed by D.W. Griffith: - correct answer ✔✔The Great Train Robbery
, (T or F) Birth of a Nation was not controversial at the time of its release -- it was not until many
years later that the content of the film generated arguments against it. - correct answer
✔✔False
The director of Birth of a Nation: - correct answer ✔✔Griffith
(T or F) "Nickelodeons" were studios where early motion pictures were filmed. - correct answer
✔✔False
(T or F) The Lumiere "Cinematographe" was a technical improvement over the Edison
kinetograph/kinetoscope. - correct answer ✔✔True
The video for "Tonight, Tonight" by the Smashing Pumpkins in the 1990s was influenced by a
film made by: - correct answer ✔✔Melies
(T or F) The most common length of the very first motion pictures seen in "slot machines" was
around 30 minutes. - correct answer ✔✔False
The 1927 film that won a special Oscar for "unique and artistic achievement" the same year that
Wings won for "best film production:" - correct answer ✔✔Sunrise
(T or F) Chaplin's City Lights ends with the girl, now cured of blindness, never realizing it was the
Chaplin character who had helped her. - correct answer ✔✔False
Which one of the following individuals was not a founding partner in United Artists: - correct
answer ✔✔DeMille
(T or F) Wings (1927) was about pilots in World War I. - correct answer ✔✔True
well answered graded A+
What decade is considered to have marked the true beginning of the motion picture medium: -
correct answer ✔✔1890s
The Edison employee credited with the "hands-on" invention of motion picture technology: -
correct answer ✔✔Dickson
(T or F) Edison's kinetoscope projected motion pictures onto a screen. - correct answer
✔✔False
The "heroes" of Birth of a Nation: - correct answer ✔✔The Klu Klux Klan
Which of the following is associated with Mack Sennett: - correct answer ✔✔→Keystone Kops
→Film Comedy
→Charlie Chaplin's first short films as a performer
(T or F) The original title of Birth of a Nation was "The Clansman." - correct answer ✔✔True
The director of The Great Train Robbery: - correct answer ✔✔Porter
The actress who frequently starred in D.W. Griffith films: - correct answer ✔✔Gish
Which film was not directed by D.W. Griffith: - correct answer ✔✔The Great Train Robbery
, (T or F) Birth of a Nation was not controversial at the time of its release -- it was not until many
years later that the content of the film generated arguments against it. - correct answer
✔✔False
The director of Birth of a Nation: - correct answer ✔✔Griffith
(T or F) "Nickelodeons" were studios where early motion pictures were filmed. - correct answer
✔✔False
(T or F) The Lumiere "Cinematographe" was a technical improvement over the Edison
kinetograph/kinetoscope. - correct answer ✔✔True
The video for "Tonight, Tonight" by the Smashing Pumpkins in the 1990s was influenced by a
film made by: - correct answer ✔✔Melies
(T or F) The most common length of the very first motion pictures seen in "slot machines" was
around 30 minutes. - correct answer ✔✔False
The 1927 film that won a special Oscar for "unique and artistic achievement" the same year that
Wings won for "best film production:" - correct answer ✔✔Sunrise
(T or F) Chaplin's City Lights ends with the girl, now cured of blindness, never realizing it was the
Chaplin character who had helped her. - correct answer ✔✔False
Which one of the following individuals was not a founding partner in United Artists: - correct
answer ✔✔DeMille
(T or F) Wings (1927) was about pilots in World War I. - correct answer ✔✔True
