MCOMM 224 Final Exam With
Complete Solution
What decade is considered to have marked the true beginning of the motion
picture medium: - ANSWER 1890s
The Edison employee credited with the "hands-on" invention of motion
picture technology: - ANSWER Dickson
(T or F) Edison's kinetoscope projected motion pictures onto a screen. -
ANSWER False
The "heroes" of Birth of a Nation: - ANSWER The Klu Klux Klan
Which of the following is associated with Mack Sennett: - 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." - ANSWER
True
The director of The Great Train Robbery: - ANSWER Porter
The actress who frequently starred in D.W. Griffith films: - ANSWER Gish
Which film was not directed by D.W. Griffith: - 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. - ANSWER False
The director of Birth of a Nation: - ANSWER Griffith
(T or F) "Nickelodeons" were studios where early motion pictures were
filmed. - ANSWER False
(T or F) The Lumiere "Cinematographe" was a technical improvement over
the Edison kinetograph/kinetoscope. - ANSWER True
The video for "Tonight, Tonight" by the Smashing Pumpkins in the 1990s was
influenced by a film made by: - ANSWER Melies
(T or F) The most common length of the very first motion pictures seen in
"slot machines" was around 30 minutes. - 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:" - 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. - ANSWER False
Which one of the following individuals was not a founding partner in United
Artists: - ANSWER DeMille
(T or F) Wings (1927) was about pilots in World War I. - ANSWER True
Which actress is not associated with movies in the 20s: - ANSWER Audrey
Hepburn
"It" in the 1920s referred to: - ANSWER Sexuality
Which type of film was Nanook of the North: - ANSWER Documentary
Complete Solution
What decade is considered to have marked the true beginning of the motion
picture medium: - ANSWER 1890s
The Edison employee credited with the "hands-on" invention of motion
picture technology: - ANSWER Dickson
(T or F) Edison's kinetoscope projected motion pictures onto a screen. -
ANSWER False
The "heroes" of Birth of a Nation: - ANSWER The Klu Klux Klan
Which of the following is associated with Mack Sennett: - 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." - ANSWER
True
The director of The Great Train Robbery: - ANSWER Porter
The actress who frequently starred in D.W. Griffith films: - ANSWER Gish
Which film was not directed by D.W. Griffith: - 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. - ANSWER False
The director of Birth of a Nation: - ANSWER Griffith
(T or F) "Nickelodeons" were studios where early motion pictures were
filmed. - ANSWER False
(T or F) The Lumiere "Cinematographe" was a technical improvement over
the Edison kinetograph/kinetoscope. - ANSWER True
The video for "Tonight, Tonight" by the Smashing Pumpkins in the 1990s was
influenced by a film made by: - ANSWER Melies
(T or F) The most common length of the very first motion pictures seen in
"slot machines" was around 30 minutes. - 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:" - 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. - ANSWER False
Which one of the following individuals was not a founding partner in United
Artists: - ANSWER DeMille
(T or F) Wings (1927) was about pilots in World War I. - ANSWER True
Which actress is not associated with movies in the 20s: - ANSWER Audrey
Hepburn
"It" in the 1920s referred to: - ANSWER Sexuality
Which type of film was Nanook of the North: - ANSWER Documentary
