CTVA 100: FILM EXAM 1 STUDY
GUIDE questions with verified
answers
Charlie Chaplin - correct answer ✔✔A "silent comedian," this movie star continued to lengthen
the silent film style and offer an alternative to the sound film with his trademark tattered suit,
derby hat, and cane, playing the "little tramp" who made audiences laugh with his silent jokes.
Francis Ford Coppola - correct answer ✔✔Director of The Godfather
Thomas A. Edison (moving pictures) - correct answer ✔✔Started idea from Muyabridge
zoopraxiscope and filled plans with the patent office for the Kinetograph (first camera) and
Kinetoscope (viewer)
1893: first public demonstration
Sergei Eisenstein - correct answer ✔✔Russian film maker who pioneered the use of montage
and is considered among the most influential film makers in the history of motion pictures
(1898-1948) Battleship Potemkin
Douglas Fairbanks - correct answer ✔✔American actor, screenwriter, director, and producer
best known for his roles in silent films.
D.W. Griffith - correct answer ✔✔groundbreaking American film director, directed The Birth of a
Nation
Alice Guy Blache - correct answer ✔✔First female director (France) makes what many scholars
think may be the first actual narrative film
first cinematic storyteller
, directed 1000 movies in 26 years and 22 feature films
Solax studio 1910
made photscences (ADR) lip-synch in production
hallway scene
first fiction film in 1896
William Hays - correct answer ✔✔Head of the Motion Picture Producers and Directors
Association
Alfred Hitchcock - correct answer ✔✔was an iconic and highly influential British filmmaker and
producer, who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and thriller genres.
Howard Hughes - correct answer ✔✔millionaire, director, Golden age of Hollywood who died of
mental disorders
Buster Keaton - correct answer ✔✔1917 an American comic actor and filmmaker.He was best
known for his silent films, in which his trademark was physical comedy with a consistently stoic,
deadpan expression, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face".
George Lucas - correct answer ✔✔Creator of Star Wars
Auguste and Louis Lumiere - correct answer ✔✔"fathers of modern film" first cinematographe
camera projector system;
Georges Melies - correct answer ✔✔"A Trip to the Moon" 1902. becomes first film artist- uses
movies to tell a story
Eadweard Muybridge - correct answer ✔✔"The father of series/sequence photography"
GUIDE questions with verified
answers
Charlie Chaplin - correct answer ✔✔A "silent comedian," this movie star continued to lengthen
the silent film style and offer an alternative to the sound film with his trademark tattered suit,
derby hat, and cane, playing the "little tramp" who made audiences laugh with his silent jokes.
Francis Ford Coppola - correct answer ✔✔Director of The Godfather
Thomas A. Edison (moving pictures) - correct answer ✔✔Started idea from Muyabridge
zoopraxiscope and filled plans with the patent office for the Kinetograph (first camera) and
Kinetoscope (viewer)
1893: first public demonstration
Sergei Eisenstein - correct answer ✔✔Russian film maker who pioneered the use of montage
and is considered among the most influential film makers in the history of motion pictures
(1898-1948) Battleship Potemkin
Douglas Fairbanks - correct answer ✔✔American actor, screenwriter, director, and producer
best known for his roles in silent films.
D.W. Griffith - correct answer ✔✔groundbreaking American film director, directed The Birth of a
Nation
Alice Guy Blache - correct answer ✔✔First female director (France) makes what many scholars
think may be the first actual narrative film
first cinematic storyteller
, directed 1000 movies in 26 years and 22 feature films
Solax studio 1910
made photscences (ADR) lip-synch in production
hallway scene
first fiction film in 1896
William Hays - correct answer ✔✔Head of the Motion Picture Producers and Directors
Association
Alfred Hitchcock - correct answer ✔✔was an iconic and highly influential British filmmaker and
producer, who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and thriller genres.
Howard Hughes - correct answer ✔✔millionaire, director, Golden age of Hollywood who died of
mental disorders
Buster Keaton - correct answer ✔✔1917 an American comic actor and filmmaker.He was best
known for his silent films, in which his trademark was physical comedy with a consistently stoic,
deadpan expression, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face".
George Lucas - correct answer ✔✔Creator of Star Wars
Auguste and Louis Lumiere - correct answer ✔✔"fathers of modern film" first cinematographe
camera projector system;
Georges Melies - correct answer ✔✔"A Trip to the Moon" 1902. becomes first film artist- uses
movies to tell a story
Eadweard Muybridge - correct answer ✔✔"The father of series/sequence photography"
