EXAM 3 book

Question 1

Thomas Alva Edison

Answer 1

Kinescope “peep show precursor”

Question 2

George Melies

Answer 2

French film maker first to use special effects in movies in order to show imaginative stories

Question 3

D.W. Griffith

Answer 3

used good film techniques, didn’t invent them just used them

Question 4

Birth of A Nation

Answer 4

First major full length film, racist film about KKK introduced many innovative film techniques

Question 5

Edwin S. Porter

Answer 5

Great Train Robbery

Question 6

Independent Films

Answer 6

Films made by production companies out side the main hollywood studios

Question 7

Product Placement

Answer 7

A form of advertising in which brand name goods or services are placed prominently within movie content that is other wise devoid of advertising

Question 8

Time Shift

Answer 8

Recording of an audio or video event for listening or viewing later

Question 9

Cathode Ray Tube

Answer 9

a device still used in most television in which electrons are transmitted to a screen for viewing

Question 10

John Logie Baird

Answer 10

invented the first mechanically scanned television device in 1923

Question 11

Vladimir Zworykin

Answer 11

Developed a better version of the Cathode Ray Tube called Iconoscope

Question 12

HDTV

Answer 12

Hight definition TV Modern technology

Question 13

Digital Television

Answer 13

All digital television system in which cable is broadcast through the air

Question 14

Multicast

Answer 14

The simultaneous transmission of multiple channels of compressed content or in some cases the same content at different times

Question 15

Community Antena Television

Answer 15

Cable television, so hilly or remote areas can still get signal

Question 16

Fiber Optics

Answer 16

A transparent filament usually made of glass and plastic that uses light to carry information

Question 17

Coaxial Cable

Answer 17

An insulated and conducting wire typically used for most cable television

Question 18

Micheaux

Answer 18

African American actor who directed 42 movies

Question 19

Paul Robeson

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American Ameature actor who traveled to Russia and like communism

Question 20

Block Booking

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will run not as good as film, but then will get access to good films to show

Question 21

Motion picture production company

Answer 21

Hollywood immigrants formed against this company B/c actors will be forced into a movie only because people would want to see the specific actor in it

Question 22

Star System

Answer 22

Promoting and exploiting movie stars

Question 23

The Talkies

Answer 23

Jazz singer in the 1927

Question 24

Color Films

Answer 24

Technicolor red green blue 3 exclusive genres musical, western, film noir

Question 25

Vertical Integration

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Owning the film from start to finish film monopoly

Question 26

Double Feature

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1 price 2 full movies

Question 27

Post War Decline

Answer 27

Vertical Integration Illegal, TV competition, studios didn't advertise on tv

Question 28

Red Scare

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Actors black listed if they were believed to be communist

Question 29

Motion Picture Production Code 1934

Answer 29

Studios needed to self regulation, failure

Question 30

Man with the golden Arm

Answer 30

Man doing heroin, older themes

Question 31

Motion Picture Association of America

Answer 31

Rating system 1966