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What is a Zoetrope?
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A cylindrical device that rapidly twirled images inside and appeared to move them.
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Louis and Auguste Lumire developed a _______
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Projection System
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The first public showing of a filmstrip using the vitascope featured ______
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A boxing match and waves rolling onto a beach
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Movie entered mass-medium status when they ________.
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Began to tell stories through a series of depicted actions
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The Life of an American Fireman is considered the _______.
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First American narrative film
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Which of the following movie studios was part of the early film oligopoly?
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Paramount
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By the late 1920s, there were _____ major studios.
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Five
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This person was instrumental in driving the early movie industry away from the east coast.
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Thomas Edison
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Popular movie actors in the early 1900s ________.
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Signed exlusive contracts obligating them to stick with one studio and they found themselves with a new, elevated status in the popular culture.
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The practice of loaning out movies for a share in box-office revenue is known as ______.
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Film exchange
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The first featured-length film was _______.
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The Birth of a Nation
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Which of the following early talkies was considered a commercial breakthrough for this medium?
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The Singing Fool
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What gives Hollywood movies their distinctive flavor?
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Narrative/Genre/Author
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Which of the following best describes genre in the context of understanding film as a medium?
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A category of film in which certain types of plots and characters appear over and over
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Before 2009, how many female directors had received an Academy Award nomination for directing a feature film?
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Three
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