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STUDYGUIDE
Module 1 Exam
___1. The Best Boy is:
a. The leading ingénue role
b. Another name for the Assistant Director
c. The assistant to the gaffer
d. The assistant to the grip
___2. Pan is:
a. Horizontal movement of the camera
b. Vertical movement of the camera
c. Focusing in and out of the camera
d. Fade to black
___3. SAG is:
a. The film actor’s union
b. The stage actor’s union
c. The television/radio actor’s union
d. The film crew’s union
___4. A Long Shot includes the actor’s:
a. Entire Body
b. Torso from the waist up
c. Head only
d. Eyes or lips
___5. A Long shot makes the audience feel:
a. Nothing – it’s used for information
b. Like they are a part of the scene
c. That they care – either positively or negatively for the person or object
d. An extreme, passionate connection with the person or object
___6. A Close up shot includes the actor’s:
a. Entire Body
b. Torso from the waist up
c. Head only
d. Eyes or lips
___7. A Close up shot makes the audience feel:
a. Nothing – it’s used for information
b. Like they are a part of the scene
c. That they care – either positively or negatively for the person or object
d. An extreme, passionate connection with the person or object
___8. A Medium shot length includes the actor’s:
a. Entire Body
b. Torso from the waist up
c. Head only
d. Eyes or lips
___9. A Medium shot length makes the audience feel:
a. Nothing – it’s used for information
b. Like they are a part of the scene
c. That they care – either positively or negatively for the person or object
d. An extreme, passionate connection with the person or object
___10. A High angle makes the audience feel:
a. Like the person or object is weak or vulnerable
b. Like the person or object is powerful
c. They are a part of the action
d. They have no relationship to the action
___11. An Eye Level angle makes the audience feel:
a. Like the person or object is weak or vulnerable
b. Like the person or object is powerful
c. They are a part of the action
d. They have no relationship to the action
___12. A Low angle makes the audience feel:
a. Like the person or object is weak or vulnerable
b. Like the person or object is powerful
c. They are a part of the action
d. They have no relationship to the action
___13. Tilt is:
a. Horizontal movement of the camera
b. Vertical movement of the camera
c. Focusing in and out of the camera
d. Diagonal movement of the camera
___14. The Producer’s primary responsibility is:
a. The artistic decisions of the film
b. The financial decisions of the film
c. The lighting and camera choices
d. The building of the scenery of the film
___15. The Director’s primary responsibility is:
a. The artistic decisions of the film
b. The financial decisions of the film
c. The lighting and camera choices
d. The building of the scenery of the film
___16. The Theme of a film is:
a. A plot synopsis stated in one sentence
b. A single sentence created to sell the film
c. The moral message stated in one sentence
d. A tag line for the film
___17. An example of a symbol used in Metropolis is:
a. Freder symbolizes the Heart of a Savior (Mediator)
b. The Machines symbolize factories
c. The elevators symbolize a way down to the worker’s level
d. Joh Frederson symbolizes the boss
___18. The phenomenon whereby the eye remembers even after an object has
disappeared and connects the two images is called:
a. The Meissonier effect
b. Zoetropic vision
c. Shadowing
d. Persistence of vision
___19. Storefront movie houses offering a series of machines that played short
films became known as:
a. Nickelodeons
b. Kinetoscopes
c. Movie Theatres
d. Black Marias
___20. The Lumière Brothers are credited with creating the first film which
recorded:
a. an automobile race
b. workers leaving a factory
c. a horse race
d. a child walking along a sidewalk
___21. George Méliès’, A Voyage to the Moon is credited as the first film to use:
a. Special effects
b. Editing
c. Tracking
d. Accompanying music
___22. What precipitated the move of the film industry from New York to
California?
a. The instigation of the studio system
b. The completion of the Transcontinental Railway
c. The organization of United Artists
d. The monopoly of the Patent’s Company
___23. The vulnerable, but resilient gentleness of “The Tramp” are trademarks of
comic director/writer/actor:
a. Mack Sennet
b. Charlie Chaplin
c. Harold Lloyd
d. Buster Keaton
___24. The title character in Buster Keaton’s The General is:
a. Keaton’s character
b. Robert E. Lee
c. A train
d. Ulysses S, Grant
___25. Fritz Lang’s futuristic parable of workers and owners learning to live and
work together is:
a. Metropolis
b. The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari
c. Nosferatu
d. Intolerance
___26. The Cabinet of Caligari is a cinematic example of which artistic style:
a. surrealism
b. expressionism
c. cubism
d. impressionism
___27. Louis Buñuel and Salvador Dali’s Un Chien Andalou is a cinematic
example of which artistic style:
a. surrealism
b. expressionism
c. cubism
d. impressionism
___28. The first “talkie” was:
a. Marie Antoinette
b. The Dawn Patrol
c. Wings
d. The Jazz Singer
___29. Sound was ultimately added to film by:
a. Playing an accompanying disc called “Vitaphone”
b. Utilizing Thomas Edison’s “phonograph”
c. Attaching the sound to the film stock
d. Accompaniment of live musicians
___30. What American disaster in 1929 had a worldwide effect on the
entertainment industry?
a. World War I
b. Prohibition
c. The sinking of the Titanic
d. Stock Market Crash
___31. The Production Code of 1934 was created in part to soften the violence in
which cinematic style:
a. The Screwball comedy
b. The Musical
c. The Gangster Film
d. Film Noir
___32. The Production Code of 1934 prohibited which of the following from being
included in films:
a. Nudity and suggestive dances
b. Indicators of sexual intercourse like couples sleeping in one bed
c. Strong or offensive language
d. All of the above
___33. Which director/choreographer was famous for creating elaborate
geometric patterns with dancers in his musicals of the 1930’s?
a. Fred Astaire
b. Busby Berkeley
c. Frank Capra
d. Howard Hawks
___34. Which director/choreographer stated, “Either the camera will dance or I
will” and kept the camera still while he danced in his musicals of the
1930’s?
a. Fred Astaire
b. Busby Berkeley
c. Frank Capra
d. Howard Hawks
___35. During the Depression audiences wanted an escape from the reality of
their economic condition so which comedic genre was created:
a. Sit Coms
b. Slapstick
c. Screwball Comedies
d. Farce
___36. Frank Capra films are known for:
a. Deep focus and panoramic photography
b. Gritty crime drama
c. Big budget musical numbers
d. Humanitarian and American themes
___37. How did Frank Capra create “naturalness” in his films?
a. Using sound effects to transition into scenes
b. Having actors overlap their dialogue
c. Allowing his actors to improvise dialogue and actions
d. All the above
___38. Which 1934 film swept the Oscars winning Best Director, Best Actor, Best
Actress, Best Writer and Best Picture?
a. Philadelphia Story
b. Gone with the Wind
c. Stagecoach
d. It Happened One Night
___39. A new motion picture color process created in 1939 and used in both
Gone with the Wind and The Wizard of Oz was named:
a. Kinemacolor
b. Technicolor
c. Eastmancolor
d. Chromacolor
___40. Compared to previous cameras a Technicolor camera was:
a. Much smaller
b. Much lighter
c. Much larger
d. More mobile
___41. The “Golden Year” of the Golden Age of Hollywood was:
a. 1939
b. 1934
c. 1927
d. 1919
___42. The Studio Head at MGM in the 1930’s was:
a. David Sarnoff
b. Louis B. Mayer
c. Jack Warner
d. Adolph Zukor
___43. The Studio Head at Warner Brothers in the 1930’s was:
a. David Sarnoff
b. Louis B. Mayer
c. Jack Warner
d. Adolph Zukor
___44. Gone with the Wind was based on Margaret Mitchell’s best-selling novel:
a. Tara
b. How Green was my Valley
c. Gone with the Wind
d. Wuthering Heights
___45. Ten days after shooting began on Gone with the Wind producer David O.
Selznick replaced director George Cukor with which director?
a. Victor Fleming
b. John Ford
c. Frank Capra
d. Howard Hawks
___46. Although directed by Victor Fleming, Gone with the Wind was billed as
whose production?
a. Frank Capra
b. George Cukor
c. David O. Selznick
d. John Ford
___47. Who was the first African American artist to win an Academy Award for
Acting?
a. Halle Berry
b. Sidney Poitier
c. Denzel Washington
d. Hattie McDaniel
___48. Who was the second African American artist to win an Academy Award for
Acting in 1964?
a. Halle Berry
b. Sidney Poitier
c. Denzel Washington
d. Hattie McDaniel
___49. Which unknown actress created the coveted role of Scarlett O’Hara for
which she won Best Actress in 1939?
a. Claudette Colbert
b. Katherine Hepburn
c. Olivia de Havilland
d. Vivien Leigh
___50. Gone with the Wind won eight Oscars but was prevented from winning a
“Sweep” by not winning:
a. Best Picture – David O. Selznick
b. Best Director – Victor Fleming
c. Best Actor – Clark Gable
d. Best Writing – Sidney Howard