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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Flashback: A Brief History of Film Chapters 17-20.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What was Italian director Luchino Visconti's title in his home country?
(a) The Baron of Venice.
(b) The Baron of Sicily.
(c) The Duke of Conti.
(d) The Duke of Modrone.
2. Which of the following men was not one of the major producers in the 1950s American film industry?
(a) Fred Zinnemann.
(b) Elia Kazan.
(c) Alfred Hitchcock.
(d) Billy Wilder.
3. For what company did Griffith work?
(a) Paramount.
(b) Biograph.
(c) Lamont.
(d) Fields Inc.
4. Which of the following was not one of the experiments conducted by film studios in the 1950s in order to change the size of their screens?
(a) Rotoscope.
(b) CinemaScope.
(c) 3D.
(d) Cinerama.
5. Which of the following was not one of the rising directors of independent American films in the nineties?
(a) Cameron Crowe.
(b) The Coen brothers.
(c) Quentin Tarantino.
(d) Christopher Nolan.
Short Answer Questions
1. In what style did the French produce their films?
2. In Eastern Europe in the seventies, what topic was generally avoided in their cinema?
3. What did Meissonier's conversion of Muybridge's photographs create?
4. Why did 1950s allow independent filmmakers in America to practice their craft more openly?
5. Which of of the following was not one of the associate companies of the commercial conglomerates that helped keep the American film industry from floundering in the sixties?
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