Question 1

World War I severely curtailed filmmaking in which two important movie-producing nations?

Accepted Answer

France and Italy

Question 2

Identify a true statement about the Autorenfilm that arose in Germany during 1913.

Accepted Answer

It was publicized on the basis of a famous writer responsible for the script or the literary work from which the film was adapted.

Question 3

The Student of Prague (1913) was influential within the German cinema partly for its:

Accepted Answer

photographic special effects.

Question 4

Which European film of the mid-1910s was renowned for its slow tracking shots, so much so that similar types of camera movement subsequently were described using this film's title?

Accepted Answer

Cabiria

Question 5

Which of the following was NOT a distinctively Italian film genre of the silent era?

Accepted Answer

white telephone films

Question 6

Which nation's cinema was well-known in the 1910s for its tragic endings?

Accepted Answer

Russia

Question 7

Which of the following is NOT true of Pathé Frères's response to World War I?

Accepted Answer

It provided stable leadership for French film production by creating competitive alternatives to Hollywood cinema.

Question 8

Modern-day exposure to and understanding of Swedish cinema of the 1910s is limited partly because of a 1941 fire that destroyed the negatives of the silent-era pictures produced by:

Accepted Answer

Svenska in Sweden.

Question 9

One of the most important Swedish film directors, known for an austere and naturalistic style and for a favored mode of storytelling that stressed the consequences of a single action, was:

Accepted Answer

Victor Sjöström.

Question 10

Upon its formation in 1914, Paramount was instantly notable as:

Accepted Answer

the first national distributor in the United States devoted solely to features.

Question 11

Around 1917, Paramount was releasing about 100 feature films per year and requiring theaters to show all of them to get any. This was an early instance of the practice known as:

Accepted Answer

block booking

Question 12

Which of the following was NOT a reason for the use of the continuity script by the Hollywood studios in the 1910s?

Accepted Answer

to settle the matter of which writers received screen credit on a film and under what designation

Question 13

During the mid-1910s, filmmakers experimented with _____, lighting on part of the scene, motivated as coming from a specific source.

Accepted Answer

effects lighting

Question 14

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of European cinematic style during the 1910s?

Accepted Answer

frequent cut-ins

Question 15

D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (1915) was extremely controversial because:

Accepted Answer

of its racist account of the role of African Americans in the post-Civil War South.

Question 16

Cecil B. De Mille is often thought of today primarily for his:

Accepted Answer

historical epics of the sound era.

Question 17

Keystone, the studio famous for its slapstick comedies and for introducing movie audiences to Charlie Chaplin, was headed by:

Accepted Answer

Mack Sennett.

Question 18

Western star William S. Hart was well known for:

Accepted Answer

playing criminals or men with shady pasts.

Question 19

The system of animation in which a figure is drawn on paper, then a portion of its body is cut away and redrawn on a sheet of paper below the figure's remaining portion was commonly known as:

Accepted Answer

the slash system.

Question 20

Which of the following is NOT true of silent movies made in minor producing countries like Argentina and New Zealand?

Accepted Answer

They were often preserved by government-run archives.

Question 21

During the 1910s, Paris was the center for the international circulation of U.S. films.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 22

Following World War I, film industries in other countries found that it was usually cheaper to buy an American film than to finance a local production.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 23

Russian film acting during the 1910s was known for being intense and highly internalized.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 24

The German blockade of film imports to several northern European countries during World War I helped boost Swedish production.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 25

During the 1910s, Hollywood studios favored staging within a single shot and refined their approach by creating a complex choreography not seen in earlier years.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 26

In the classical Hollywood cinema, the chain of cause and effect is rooted equally in social forces and character psychology.

Accepted Answer

False

Film History 3

Quiz 3

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