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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. In 1947, what did the House of Un-American Activities Committee began to investigate?
(a) Communism.
(b) Labor laws.
(c) The roles of minorities in film.
(d) Nazi spies.

2. For what reason did many great artists leave Europe for America in the 1930s?
(a) Low production values.
(b) Political exiling.
(c) The studios lured them to America.
(d) Nazi persecution.

3. What style of art influenced Alfred Hitchcock the most, particularly in his early work?
(a) Theater of Cruelty.
(b) Expressionism.
(c) Brechtian.
(d) Theater of the Absurd.

4. What did Griffith as a director discover that elevated films from being more than technical achievements?
(a) Cinematography.
(b) Prohibition forced people into the theaters.
(c) Talented actors.
(d) Special effects and lighting.

5. During the Golden Age, what part of the film was frequently lost in favor of the star performer's special skills?
(a) Story.
(b) Lighting.
(c) Music.
(d) Cinematographer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Through what did Jean Louis Meissonier project Muybridge's work?

2. What was one reason comedy shorts became so popular in the 1920s?

3. Which director from Germany became known for his films about history with injections of off-handed comedy?

4. Filmmaker Jean Renoir was the son of what influential artist?

5. In what style did the French produce their films?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. Who was David Wark Griffith?

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

5. How did the Production Code come into existence and what were some of the effects it had on films?

6. Describe the film industry in the USSR after the first World War.

7. Discuss the financial status of American films and how this led to the rise of the studios during the early years of Hollywood's Golden Age of the Studio.

8. How did the advent of "talkies" change both technical and acting aspects of film?

9. How did the film industry begin to suffer after the advent of talkies?

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

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