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| German Expressionism - films | Nosferatu, M, Metropolis |
| German Expressionism - directors | Fritz Lang, Alfred Hitchcock, Erich Pommer |
| Kuleshov Effect example | Sergei Eisenstein, October |
| Head of the Production Code Administration (PCA) | Joseph Breen |
| Hay's Code 1934 | Motion Picture Production Code |
| Big 5 - studios | RKO, MGM, 20th Century Fox, Warner Brothers, Paramount |
| Small 3 - studios | United Pictures, United Artists, Columbia Pictures |
| Vertical Integration | Production, Distribution, Exhibition |
| Studio System controlled what aspects? | Marketing of the film, shipping of films, schedule of exhibition, block booking and owning the labs where films processed and printed |
| First musical picture incorporating sound inserts | The Jazz Singer 1927 |
| Silent actors that didn't transition to talkies | Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, Vilma Banky |
| Silent actors that did transition to talkies | Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Boris Karloff |
| What were Hollywood Combat Films? | Portrayed WWII as a 'peoples' war' |
| Examples of Combat films | The Negro Solider, Soldier from the Tropics |
| Example of women in war film | Katherine Hepburn narrating 'Women in Defense' |
| Examples of animation and war films | Bug Bunny Nips the Nip, Ali Baba, Tokio Jokio |
| What two agencies did the Office of War (OWI) establish in 1942? to supervise the film industry? | The Bureau of Motion Pictures and The Bureau of Censorship |
| What did The Bureau of Motion Pictures do? | Produced educational films and reviewed scripts submitted by the studios |
| What did The Bureau of Censorship do? | Oversaw film exports |
| Examples of Hollywood war propaganda films | Mrs. Miniver, Casablanca, They Came To Blow Up America |
| Example of British documentary film during WWII? | From the Four Corners (1941) |
| When was the Ministry of Information (MOI) formed? | 4 September 1939 - day after Britain's declaration of war |
| What was the Ministry of War renamed to? | Central Office of Information |
| How did the Camera Obscura worked? | Light from object (A) passes through a pinhole, which shows on back wall of chamber as inverted image (B) |
| Who invented the Magic Lantern? | Christiaan Huygens |
| What was the Magic Lantern originally called? | The Lantern of Fright |
| What was the Magic Lantern used for? | Magnify and project images painted on glass slides |
| Who was the first person heavily involved in Phantasmagoria? | Etienne-Gaspard Robert. Stagename: Robertson |
| Who were involved in the making of the Kinetoscope in 1891? | Thomas A Edison and William Dickson |
| When and where was the Kinetoscope finally exhibited to the public? | 1894, New York City |
| Who and when was the Stroboscope invented? | Simon Ritter Von Stampfer - 1832 |
| What did the Stroboscope do to moving subjects? | 'Slow down' or 'stop' them |
| Name 4 of the Lumiere Brothers films | Baby's lunch, workers leaving factory, train arriving at station, sprinkler getting sprinkled |
| Who was associated with early film narrative? | Georges Melies |
| George Melies' famous film | Le Voyage dans la Lune 1902 (Trip to the Moon) |
| What formed the 'continuity model'? | Evolutionary and Cinematic and Narrative Assumptions |