TFM 364A Test Questions with Correct Answers Latest Update 2025 Already Passed
Edwin S. Porter - Answers -Director of The Great Train Robbery (1903) and The Life of an American
Fireman (1902)
● He was one of the first to created tightly structured films, use cause and
effect and continuity to tell narrative based stories.
The Great Train Robbery (1903)
● Edwin S. Porter created one of the first Westerns.
The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912)
● An early example of the gangster film by D.W. Griffith.
Both explore the ideas and symbols of film genres in their earliest stages.
Iconography from other mediums (literature, theater) translated to the
screen.
Biograph Company - Answers Founded in 1895 - became one of the first American companies devoted
entirely to making films. Quickly became one of the most respected
film studios.
● D.W. Griffith joined in 1908, and within months became the principal
director, and cameraman Billy Bitzer. Here you begin to see narrative
complexity, how the end of one shot signaled the beginning of another,
,the chase film, for both dramatic and comedic effect.
Nickelodeons - Answers (because movies cost 5 cents), were small,
uncomfortable makeshift theaters built in cigar shops, pawn shops, and
converted restaurants.
Movie Palaces - Answers Film more popular, outgrew Nickelodeon's. Movies began to cost more, and
were marketed toward the middle class.
Filmmakers themselves had to create content that was attractive to this
demographic, which led to an increasing push to experiment with form
and technique. Movies were starting to be taken more seriously as an art
form
Narrative - Answers Narrative filmmaking developed in the early 1900s, films had to become more then
a technological marvel- "Cinema of Attractions"->narrative
● Edison wanted to transcend the limitations of just filming people doing
things. Films became more about storytelling, - adaptations, comic and
dramatic narratives.
Genre (Guy) - Answers Guy begins to expand her interest in genre throughout the
early 1900s.
● Creates a series of films that deal with Vaudevillian physical
, comedy and happenstance.
● These works explore how to deconstruct and subvert the
roles women play in domestic settings, not to mention themes
of immediacy and intimacy
Georges Méliès - Answers Expressed great vision and innovation through
special effects.
■ Tinting, stop-motion animation; double, triple and quadruple
exposures; cross-dissolves; and jump cuts
■ Used magic tricks to lay the origins on fantasy, Sci-fi, the
exploration of outer space, and exploring one's imagination
onscreen.
-A Trip to the Moon (1902), Spectacle, Magic, Sci-Fi, stop motion, and special effects
Thomas Edison - Answers 1891, the inventor of electric power, the incandescent
light bulb, and the phonograph, sought to invent a movie camera himself
that would allow for moving pictures.
Funded the efforts of William K. L. Dickson, who created the first
motion picture camera, which they named the Kinetograph.
They later developed the Kinetoscope.
Edwin S. Porter - Answers -Director of The Great Train Robbery (1903) and The Life of an American
Fireman (1902)
● He was one of the first to created tightly structured films, use cause and
effect and continuity to tell narrative based stories.
The Great Train Robbery (1903)
● Edwin S. Porter created one of the first Westerns.
The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912)
● An early example of the gangster film by D.W. Griffith.
Both explore the ideas and symbols of film genres in their earliest stages.
Iconography from other mediums (literature, theater) translated to the
screen.
Biograph Company - Answers Founded in 1895 - became one of the first American companies devoted
entirely to making films. Quickly became one of the most respected
film studios.
● D.W. Griffith joined in 1908, and within months became the principal
director, and cameraman Billy Bitzer. Here you begin to see narrative
complexity, how the end of one shot signaled the beginning of another,
,the chase film, for both dramatic and comedic effect.
Nickelodeons - Answers (because movies cost 5 cents), were small,
uncomfortable makeshift theaters built in cigar shops, pawn shops, and
converted restaurants.
Movie Palaces - Answers Film more popular, outgrew Nickelodeon's. Movies began to cost more, and
were marketed toward the middle class.
Filmmakers themselves had to create content that was attractive to this
demographic, which led to an increasing push to experiment with form
and technique. Movies were starting to be taken more seriously as an art
form
Narrative - Answers Narrative filmmaking developed in the early 1900s, films had to become more then
a technological marvel- "Cinema of Attractions"->narrative
● Edison wanted to transcend the limitations of just filming people doing
things. Films became more about storytelling, - adaptations, comic and
dramatic narratives.
Genre (Guy) - Answers Guy begins to expand her interest in genre throughout the
early 1900s.
● Creates a series of films that deal with Vaudevillian physical
, comedy and happenstance.
● These works explore how to deconstruct and subvert the
roles women play in domestic settings, not to mention themes
of immediacy and intimacy
Georges Méliès - Answers Expressed great vision and innovation through
special effects.
■ Tinting, stop-motion animation; double, triple and quadruple
exposures; cross-dissolves; and jump cuts
■ Used magic tricks to lay the origins on fantasy, Sci-fi, the
exploration of outer space, and exploring one's imagination
onscreen.
-A Trip to the Moon (1902), Spectacle, Magic, Sci-Fi, stop motion, and special effects
Thomas Edison - Answers 1891, the inventor of electric power, the incandescent
light bulb, and the phonograph, sought to invent a movie camera himself
that would allow for moving pictures.
Funded the efforts of William K. L. Dickson, who created the first
motion picture camera, which they named the Kinetograph.
They later developed the Kinetoscope.
