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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What group was formed in 1908 with the intention to further develop the Kinetoscope technology?

2. What was Charlie Chaplin's film persona?

3. During the Golden Age, what now-famous aspects of films came from artists such as Busby Berkeley and Fred Astaire?

4. The two main regions involved in film production before the move to California were New York and _________.

5. In 1947, what did the House of Un-American Activities Committee began to investigate?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Aside from the Kinetoscope, what were some early advances in technology that led to the creation of the moving picture?

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

4. Why did so many artists leave Europe in the thirties and how did this effect the film industry?

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

6. Who were some of the popular stars from the 1920s and of what did their acts consist?

7. What were popular themes in early German films?

8. Who was David Wark Griffith?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How did the inclusion of violence and sexual content change over the years of the film industry's existence? How did the allowance vary from country to country? In what ways did these restrictions (or lack thereof) reveal the cultural divide between different countries?

Essay Topic 2

How did Europe's film industries recover from World War II? How were their recoveries helped or hampered by the Soviet Union? In what ways were these recoveries indicative of the culture of that country?

Essay Topic 3

In what ways did the economy determine and depend upon the successes of the film industry in both war and peace time?

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