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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During the early days of World War II, why did Britain have trouble maintaining their film industry?
(a) Immigration.
(b) Denouncement of British films from Hitler.
(c) Bomb threats.
(d) Funding.

2. What did Meissonier's conversion of Muybridge's photographs create?
(a) An illusion of movement.
(b) A projector.
(c) A live-action special effects device.
(d) A sound machine.

3. In what decade were silent films perfected?
(a) 1890s.
(b) 1910s.
(c) 1930s.
(d) 1920s.

4. As studios struggled to find the balance between pragmatism and idealism in the early decades of the Golden Age, which of the following people was not one of the great directors to innovate filmmaking in this period?
(a) Frank Capra.
(b) Max von Manderling.
(c) John Ford.
(d) Ernst Lubitsch.

5. Which of the following was not one of the the Big Five studios in the Golden Age of the Studio?
(a) RKO.
(b) Paramount.
(c) Warner Bros.
(d) Universal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What aspect of the newly-heard dialogue in the Golden Age made audiences uneasy?

2. In what genre did RKO specialize during the Golden Age?

3. From what year was a diary entry discovered as having discussed the beginnings of projections?

4. Which director became renowned for his use of long takes to evoke a darker mood?

5. What early realization helped films develop both special effects and story lines?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were some of the themes explored in both French and Spanish films?

2. How did the Film D'Art come to be?

3. What led to the mass migration of film production from New York and New Jersey to California?

4. What were the differences between early films from the United States and Europe?

5. How did the governor of California's commission for horse photography develop into Meissonier's project in creating the illusion of moving pictures?

6. How did studios cater to the audience's wishes in the Golden Age of the Studio.

7. Who were some of the great entertainers that emerged from the talkies in the early years of the film industry that helped revitalize the audience's flagging interest and why?

8. How did the differing situations in both Europe and America in the thirties ultimately influence the film industry?

9. How did the House of Un-American Activities Committee bring Hollywood's booming economy and artistic success to a screeching halt in the late forties?

10. What were popular themes in early German films?

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