MOVIES TERMINOLOGIES FILM STYLES FIRST-EVERS RANDOM
100
What are "Waterer Watered", "The Arrival of a Train", "Workers Leaving the Factory", " Feeding the Baby"?
Four actualities made by the Lumiere Brothers.
100
What is Deep Focus?
A cinematographic technique in which foreground, middle ground and background in an image are simultaneously in sharp focus.
100
What is New Hollywood Cinema?
A film style highly informed by the Civil Rights Movement, The Vietnam War and Post WWII European Art Cinema.
100
What is The Great Train Robbery?
The first Western film made.
100
What are microphones, cameras, amplification of sound and sound recording?
Problems arose in these four areas of filmmaking due to the introduction of sound in cinema.
200
What is Chronicle of A Summer?
A film that sought to uncover the truth of Paris in 1961 by: 1. making interviews 2. group discussions before the camera and 3.having subjects watch the finished product.
200
What is Dynamic Editing?
A general name given to a kind of editing that stands out and calls attention to itself.
200
What are Cinema Verite and Direct Cinema?
Two styles that emerged in the 60s due to the proliferation of 16 mm cameras and innovation of sound on tape, and which were inspired by Italian Neo-Realism's examination of the everyday.
200
What is The Jazz Singer?
The first feature film with sync sound.
200
What is Multiple Track Recording?
This sound technology permits voices, dialogue and sound effects to be registered separately and mixed into one track in post production.
300
What is Don't Look Back?
A Documentary by D.A. Pennebaker that covers Bob Dylan's 1965 concert tour in the United Kingdom.
300
What is 30 Degree Rule?
A rule of continuity editing to avoid "jump cuts".
300
What is French New Wave?
The movement influenced young American filmmakers to reject a manichean narrative and employ dynamic editing and long takes.
300
What are Musical, Screwball Comedy and Social Problem Film?
Three genres that emerged after the introduction of sound.
300
Who is Orson Welles?
Legendary American filmmaker of the Classical Hollywood Era whose first feature broke conventions by use of jump cuts, self-reflexive methods and deep focus.
400
What is Breathless?
A film making references to Humphrey Bogart, Amadeus Mozart and Rembrandt.
400
What is Kuleshov Effect?
A phenomenon named for the Soviet filmmaker who proved through experiment that the way images are juxtaposed provokes the desired effect in the spectator.
400
What is Film Noir?
Based on hard-boiled crime stories this film style is famous for its use of chiaroscuro lighting, femme fatales and doomed romances.
400
What is "Flowers and Trees"?
The first color film with sync sound.
400
What is a Montage Sequence?
This is a segment of a Hollywood film that summarizes a topic or compresses a passage of time into brief and symbolic images.
500
What is La Jettee?
A 1962 French science fiction feature by Chris Marker constructed almost entirely from still photos. It tells the story of a post-nuclear war experiment in time travel.
500
What is Persistence of Vision?
A phenomenon of the eye that allows us to perceive motion from a series of images in rapid succession at a minimum of 16 frames per second.
500
What is Blockbuster Era?
The era of American cinema that is basically a rehash of Classical Hollywood Cinema.
500
What is December of 1895?
This date marks the generally accepted birthday of the moving pictures.
500
What are WB, MGM, Paramount, FOX and RKO?
These are the Major Studios in the 1930s.






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