5 Written Questions

1. Mack Sennett founded what studio that has been credited as a training ground for hundreds of comedians?
2. What Jean Renoir film focused on French soldiers in a German POW camp during WWI?
3. What's the name of the type of lighting used in film noir?
4. What year was The Bicycle Thief released?
5. True or false: War movies were mostly positive and optimistic

5 Matching Questions

1. in a sound-proof booth
2. "The Triumph of the Will" and "Olympia"
3. "City Lights" and "Modern Times"
4. Paramount, RKO, Warner Brothers, MGM, and Fox
5. 1925

1. a What were the "Big Five" studios during the 1920s?
2. b What are the two notable films made by Leni Riefenstahl in Germany?
3. c What year was Battleship Potemkin released?
4. d What two movies did Chaplin make in the 1930s that showed his resistance to sound?
5. e During the earliest days of sound, where did the camera have to be in order to capture sound properly?

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. What studio was Carl Laemmle the founder of?
   1. westerns
   2. New Jersey
   3. musicals
   4. Universal
2. What was the name of Griffith's controversial 1915 film that featured the KKK?
   1. "The Children of Paradise"
   2. "The Great Dictator"
   3. "The Birth of the Nation"
   4. "femme fatales"
3. What was the name of the company Griffith founded with Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks?
   1. Universal
   2. neo-realism
   3. New Jersey
   4. United Artists
4. What was Keaton's comedic style?
   1. deadpan, blank expression, situational humor
   2. translations were difficult
   3. expressionism
   4. "The Great Dictator"
5. What was Vitascope?
   1. Broadway actors and directors and diction coaches
   2. editing for tension, freeze frames, natural lighting, close-ups
   3. The prototype for the modern movie projector; displayed images on a big screen for the first time
   4. they thought it was a fluke and it was too expensive

5 True/False Questions

1. Edward Muybridge → What's the name of the type of lighting used in film noir?

   True        False

2. "The Jazz Singer" → What is Chaplin's first non-silent feature?

   True        False

3. neo-realism → What was the post-war (WWII) film movement in Italy called?

   True        False

4. John Ford, Howard Hawks, Frank Capra, Billy Wilder, Fred Zinneman, William Wyler → What was Keaton's comedic style?

   True        False

5. editing for tension, freeze frames, natural lighting, close-ups → What were some of the techniques Griffith discovered for filmmaking? (4)

   True        False