Example Questions:

This technique used by magicians was a precursor to our modern film matting/bluescreen techniques.

		A.	“Black Maria”
		B.	Automatons
		C.	“Allegory”
		D.	Match Cuts
		E.	“Black Art”

Griffith’s longest and most narratively complex film, it told not one story but four.

		A. 	Barney Oldfield’s Race for Life
		B. 	Broken Blossoms
		C. 	Hearts of the World							
		D. 	Intolerance
		E. 	Maltese Falcon

Terms to focus on:

Automata
Balinese Shadow Puppets
Biograph
Black Maria
Camera Obscura
Cinematic Time
Cinématographe
Clansman
Diorama
Documentary/Non fiction film
Film d’Art
Intercutting/Cross/Parallel Cutting
Iris Shot
Kinetograph
Kinetoscope
Latham Loop
Magic Lanterns
Moving Camera
Narrative Film
Panorama
Persistence of Vision
Phi Phenomenon
Piedmont Street
Plato’s Cave
Race Movies
Rehearsals
Research
Sprocket holes
Stock Company
The Black Art
The Rise and Fall of Free Speech in America
The Leopard’s Spots
Tinting
Zoetrope

People to focus on:

Auguste & Louis Lumière
Billy Bitzer
David Lewelyn Wark Griffith
Edweard Muybridge
Edwin Stanton Porter
Ehrich Weiss
Georges Méliès
Joseph Nicé phore Niépce
Louis Jaques Mandé Daguerre
Louis Aimé Augustine Le Prince
Noble Johnson
Oscar Micheaux
Robert Houdin
Thomas Dixon
Thomas Alva Edison
William Kennedy Laurie Dickson

Films to focus on:

Birth of a Nation
Body and Soul
Broken Blossoms
Fred Ott's Sneeze
Intolerance
L’Arrouseur arrosé
Le voyage extraordinaire
Le voyage dans la lune
Life of an American Fireman
Seven Ages of Man
The Great Train Robbery
The Homesteader
The Assassination of the Duc de Guise
Way Down East
Within Our Gates
Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory