FLME 2700 EXAM 1 QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED
ANSWERS
Which form of entertainment was NOT a staple American popular culture immediately
prior to the invention of the cinema?
a.) freak show
b.) music hall entertainment
c.) historical theater
d.) radio - Answers - d.)Radio
Which of the following is a George Eastman invention that was used in designing
machines to take and project motion pictures?
a.) celluloid roll film
b.) metal slide
c.) paper roll film
d.) glass lantern slide - Answers - a.)celluloid roll film
Which of the following was NOT a necessary precondition for the invention of cinema?
a.) a photographic base flexible enough to pass through a camera rapidly
b.) the capacity to project a rapid series of images on a surface
c.) the ability to encode an optical soundtrack directly on a filmstrip
d.) the existence of an intermittent mechanism for both cameras and projectors -
Answers - c.) the ability to encode an optical soundtrack directly on a filmstrip
Etienne Jules Marey provided an important precursor of motion pictures with his
invention of __, which exposed twelve images around the edge of a circular glass plate
that made a single revolution in one second.
a.) a photographic gun
b.) a colored zoopraxiscope
c.) the kinetoscope
d.) the cinematographe - Answers - a.) a photographic gun
The Zoetrope was:
a.) the theater that exhibited projected films for the first time in the United States.
b.) the camera-projector developed by the Lumber brothers
c.) a nineteenth- century optical toy
d.) the studio in which the earliest Edison Films were shot. - Answers - c.) a nineteenth-
century camera
Which of the following early cameras also doubled as a projector?
a.) the cinematographe
b.) the biograph
c.) the bioscop
d.) the Praxinoscope - Answers - a.) the cinematographe
, Around 1895, the Lumiere brothers decided to shoot their films at __, which became the
most commonly used international film speed for about twenty years.
a.) sixteen frames per second
b.) forty-six frames per second
c.) twenty-four frames per second
d.) sixty-frames per second - Answers - a.) sixteen frames per second
Short travelogue films offering views of distant of distant lands lands were originally
known as:
a.) panoramas
b.) scenics
c.) tropicals
d.) actualities - Answers - b.) scenics
Which of the following nations was NOT one of the three primary film-producing
countries during the first decade of cinema?
a.) the United States
b.) France
c.) Germany
d.) England - Answers - c. Germany
What cinematographic innovation is Lumiere camera operator Eugene Promio credited
with?
a.) superimposition
b.) slow motion
c.) the close-up
d.) the moving camera - Answers - a.) the moving camera
Early English cinema became famous for its:
a.) special-effects cinematography
b.) primitive star system
c.) literary adaptations
d.) religious spectacles - Answers - a.) special-effects cinematography
What type of motion picture did NOT have a role in reviving audience interest in
American films around 1898?
a.) prizefight films
b.) passion plays
c.) spanish- American war actualities d.) exotic dancers - Answers - exotic dancers
Which Edwin S. Porter film is know to be the first to use printed intertitles in American
cinema history?
a.) Jack and the Beanstalk
b.) Life of an American Fireman
c.) Uncle Tom's Cabin
ANSWERS
Which form of entertainment was NOT a staple American popular culture immediately
prior to the invention of the cinema?
a.) freak show
b.) music hall entertainment
c.) historical theater
d.) radio - Answers - d.)Radio
Which of the following is a George Eastman invention that was used in designing
machines to take and project motion pictures?
a.) celluloid roll film
b.) metal slide
c.) paper roll film
d.) glass lantern slide - Answers - a.)celluloid roll film
Which of the following was NOT a necessary precondition for the invention of cinema?
a.) a photographic base flexible enough to pass through a camera rapidly
b.) the capacity to project a rapid series of images on a surface
c.) the ability to encode an optical soundtrack directly on a filmstrip
d.) the existence of an intermittent mechanism for both cameras and projectors -
Answers - c.) the ability to encode an optical soundtrack directly on a filmstrip
Etienne Jules Marey provided an important precursor of motion pictures with his
invention of __, which exposed twelve images around the edge of a circular glass plate
that made a single revolution in one second.
a.) a photographic gun
b.) a colored zoopraxiscope
c.) the kinetoscope
d.) the cinematographe - Answers - a.) a photographic gun
The Zoetrope was:
a.) the theater that exhibited projected films for the first time in the United States.
b.) the camera-projector developed by the Lumber brothers
c.) a nineteenth- century optical toy
d.) the studio in which the earliest Edison Films were shot. - Answers - c.) a nineteenth-
century camera
Which of the following early cameras also doubled as a projector?
a.) the cinematographe
b.) the biograph
c.) the bioscop
d.) the Praxinoscope - Answers - a.) the cinematographe
, Around 1895, the Lumiere brothers decided to shoot their films at __, which became the
most commonly used international film speed for about twenty years.
a.) sixteen frames per second
b.) forty-six frames per second
c.) twenty-four frames per second
d.) sixty-frames per second - Answers - a.) sixteen frames per second
Short travelogue films offering views of distant of distant lands lands were originally
known as:
a.) panoramas
b.) scenics
c.) tropicals
d.) actualities - Answers - b.) scenics
Which of the following nations was NOT one of the three primary film-producing
countries during the first decade of cinema?
a.) the United States
b.) France
c.) Germany
d.) England - Answers - c. Germany
What cinematographic innovation is Lumiere camera operator Eugene Promio credited
with?
a.) superimposition
b.) slow motion
c.) the close-up
d.) the moving camera - Answers - a.) the moving camera
Early English cinema became famous for its:
a.) special-effects cinematography
b.) primitive star system
c.) literary adaptations
d.) religious spectacles - Answers - a.) special-effects cinematography
What type of motion picture did NOT have a role in reviving audience interest in
American films around 1898?
a.) prizefight films
b.) passion plays
c.) spanish- American war actualities d.) exotic dancers - Answers - exotic dancers
Which Edwin S. Porter film is know to be the first to use printed intertitles in American
cinema history?
a.) Jack and the Beanstalk
b.) Life of an American Fireman
c.) Uncle Tom's Cabin
