Film History, Unit 2 Word Scramble
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Raided the independent studios that attempted to make films; equipment was smashed and employees were threatened. | Motion Picture Patents Company (MPPC) |
Led by Thomas Edison, several companies formed a trust | Motion Picture Patents Company (MPPC) |
Establish standards and create an internationally competitive motion picture industry. | Motion Picture Patents Company (MPPC) |
Forbid the use of actor's names in film credits. | Motion Picture Patents Company (MPPC) |
Directed Birth of a nation | D. W. Griffith |
Chronicled a part of U.S. history from pre-Civil War days through the Reconstruction | Birth of a Nation |
Griffith's second film | Intolerance |
Reason more and more films were shot in California | Weather/Light |
the year U.S. government finally acted to break up the trust under antimonopoly laws | 1915 |
Hollywood was named after… | Trees |
A group of screenwriters and an actor who were famous for the attacks made on them by McCarthy | The Hollywood 10 |
Charlie Chaplin was born in _______ on 16th April, 1889 | London |
In 1919 Chaplin joined with D.W. Griffith, Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford to form | United Artists |
A company that enabled the stars to distribute their films without studio interference. | United Artists |
Chaplin signed cinema's first million-dollar contract when he signed with... | First National |
One of the most noteworthy films in the history of motion pictures, released in 1915 | "Birth of a Nation" |
Famous for introducing sophisticated film and storytelling techniques | D.W. Griffith |
Credited with being first movie star | Florence Lawrence |
Launched an aggressive anti-Communist witch-hunt in 1947 | Senator McCarthy |
Known as "America's Sweetheart" | Mary Pickford |
Famous CBS radio and TV newscaster who discredited McCarthy | Edward R. Murrow |
Hal Roach, Mack Sennett, and Laurel and Hardy | First film comedy teams |
the undisputed comic genius of silent comedy | Charlie Chaplin |
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