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