Film Timeline

Question 1

Mid 1920s

Answer 1

sound systems began to be marketed

Question 2

1922

Answer 2

fascist regimes rise to power in italy

Question 3

1927

Answer 3

sunrise, the jazz singer, the life and death of a hollywood extra

Question 4

1928

Answer 4

steamboat willie

Question 5

1929

Answer 5

the great gabbo

Question 6

1930s

Answer 6

studio system structured into big 5 little 3 and independents

Question 7

1931

Answer 7

M, Dracula, frankenstein

Question 8

1932

Answer 8

scarface, minnie the moocher

Question 9

1933

Answer 9

snow white

Question 10

1934

Answer 10

hays code enforced, house cleaning blues

Question 11

1939

Answer 11

rules of the game (french realism)

Question 12

1939-1945

Answer 12

WWII

Question 13

1940

Answer 13

his girl friday (sound comedy)

Question 14

1941

Answer 14

citizen kane (alternative classicalism)

Question 15

1943

Answer 15

meshes of the afternoon, ossessione (first film w/ neorealist traits)

Question 16

1945

Answer 16

rome open city, detour (first film noir)

Question 17

1947

Answer 17

HUAC hearing, ray opens his art cinema in calcutta

Question 18

1948

Answer 18

paramount decision (blockputting/vertical integration now illegal) bicycle theives (italian neorealism), birth of the new camera-stylo

Question 19

1950

Answer 19

rashomon

Question 20

1951

Answer 20

rashomon wins golden lion at venice festival, start of Cahiers de cinema

Question 21

1953

Answer 21

fox patents cinemascope, the robe, how to marry a millionare

Question 22

1954

Answer 22

rear window, river of no return, truffaut auteur theory

Question 23

1955

Answer 23

pather panchali, lol montes

Question 24

1956

Answer 24

pather panchali wins best human document award at cannes film festival

Question 25

1958

Answer 25

death of andre bazin