PHOTOGRAPHY Early Entrepreneurs of Film The Big Studios The Hollywood Change Conglomeration and the Blockbuster Mentality
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What is Photography
The process first developed by French inventor Joseph Nicephore Niepce in 1816
100
Who is Eadweard Muybridge
Who invented the Zoopraxiscope, a machine for projecting slides onto a distant surface
100
What is the studio system
More elaborate films, big name stars, and being controlled from California began what system
100
What is the advent of television
This significantly altered the movie-audience relationship
100
What are Concept Films
Movies that can be described in one line
200
What is Daguerreotype
The process of recording images on polished metal plates, usually copper, covered with a thin layer of silver iodide emulsion.
200
Who is William Henry Fox Talbot
The British inventor who introduced a paper film process
200
What are movie theaters
There were 20,000 of these in the United States by the mid-1920s
200
What is Warner Bothers
This studio produced the first sound film
200
What is the Blockbuster
This is filmmaking characterized by reduced risk taking and more formulaic movies
300
What is Calotype
The process of using translucent paper from which several prints could be made.
300
Who are the Lumiere Brothers
Introduced film viewing in a dark room projected on a screen
300
What is the Motion Picture Patents Company (MPPC)
A group of 10 companies holding the patents to virtually all existing filmmaking and exhibition equipment (1908)
300
What is The Kiss
This film, starring John C. Rice and May Irvin, caused a moral outcry for censorship
300
What is Coca-Cola
This is what Spencer Tracy is splashed with (product placement) in the film Father of the Bride
400
What is the Kinetoscope
A peepshow device
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Who is Louis Daguerre
In 1839 introduced recording images on polished metal plates
400
What is Paramount Studios
Adulf Zukor and several other Independent film companies along with a distribution company joined together to form
400
What is Vertical Integration
During the Depression, studios produced, distributed, and exhibited their own films through a system of operation called
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What is Convergence
This is reshaping production, distribution, and exhibition of film and digital technologies
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What is Cinematographe
In 1893 the Lumiere Brothers patented a device that both photographed and projected action
500
Who is Thomas Armat
Advanced projector, the Edison Vitascope, was developed by what U.S. inventor
500
What is 20th Century Fox
Other independent film companies joined forces to create Fox Film Company later to be called
500
What is the Empire State Building
This is where the first public broadcast of television was made
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What is Microcinema
This is the movement in which filmmakers use digital video cameras and editing machines to produce their films






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