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What is Photography
The process first developed by French inventor Joseph Nicephore Niepce in 1816
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Who is Eadweard Muybridge
Who invented the Zoopraxiscope, a machine for projecting slides onto a distant surface
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What is the studio system
More elaborate films, big name stars, and being controlled from California began what system
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What is the advent of television
This significantly altered the movie-audience relationship
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What are Concept Films
Movies that can be described in one line
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What is Daguerreotype
The process of recording images on polished metal plates, usually copper, covered with a thin layer of silver iodide emulsion.
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Who is William Henry Fox Talbot
The British inventor who introduced a paper film process
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What are movie theaters
There were 20,000 of these in the United States by the mid-1920s
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What is Warner Bothers
This studio produced the first sound film
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What is the Blockbuster
This is filmmaking characterized by reduced risk taking and more formulaic movies
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What is Calotype
The process of using translucent paper from which several prints could be made.
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Who are the Lumiere Brothers
Introduced film viewing in a dark room projected on a screen
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What is the Motion Picture Patents Company (MPPC)
A group of 10 companies holding the patents to virtually all existing filmmaking and exhibition equipment (1908)
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What is The Kiss
This film, starring John C. Rice and May Irvin, caused a moral outcry for censorship
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What is Coca-Cola
This is what Spencer Tracy is splashed with (product placement) in the film Father of the Bride
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What is the Kinetoscope
A peepshow device
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Who is Louis Daguerre
In 1839 introduced recording images on polished metal plates
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What is Paramount Studios
Adulf Zukor and several other Independent film companies along with a distribution company joined together to form
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What is Vertical Integration
During the Depression, studios produced, distributed, and exhibited their own films through a system of operation called
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What is Convergence
This is reshaping production, distribution, and exhibition of film and digital technologies
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What is Cinematographe
In 1893 the Lumiere Brothers patented a device that both photographed and projected action
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Who is Thomas Armat
Advanced projector, the Edison Vitascope, was developed by what U.S. inventor
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What is 20th Century Fox
Other independent film companies joined forces to create Fox Film Company later to be called
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What is the Empire State Building
This is where the first public broadcast of television was made
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What is Microcinema
This is the movement in which filmmakers use digital video cameras and editing machines to produce their films
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