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OCC Film 100 Test 2
FALL 2012
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10/31/2012

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"Gone with the wind" took Margaret Mitchell how many years to write?
Definition
over 10 years
Term
1936
Definition
David O. Selznick forms his own company, Selznick International.
Term
1937
Definition
Margaret Mitchell recieves Pulitzer Prize for writing "Gone with the Wind."
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January 16th, 1939
Definition
David O. Selznick signed Vivian Leigh to play Scarlett O'Hara.
Term
1939
Definition
Film critic wrote that a film in color for over 3 hours was hard on the eyes.
Term
What was the all time top grossing film?
Definition
"Gone with the Wind"
Term
Who was David O. Selznicks father in law?
Definition
Louis B. Mayer
Term
Who produced "Gone with the Wind" ?
Definition
David O. Selznick
Term
How much was paid for the movie rights to GWTW?
Definition
$50,000
Term
Who was the first Director on GWTW?
Definition
George Cukor
Term
Who wrote the original screenplay for GWTW?
Definition
Sydney Howard
Term
Who was hired as the production designer for GWTW?
Definition
William (Bill) Cameron Menzies
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What studio loaned out Clark Gable in order to make GWTW?
Definition
MGM Studios
Term
Who was brought in to replace the first GWTW director?
Definition
Victor Flemming
Term
What film was the GWTW replacement Director taken off of to direct GWTW?
Definition
the Wizard of Oz
Term
Who was the GWTW Director that walked off production only to return 2 weeks later?
Definition
Victor Flemming
Term
Who was in charge of Special Effects Photography on GWTW?
Definition
Jack Cosgrove
Term
What was unique about all of the ceiling in GWTW?
Definition
They were painted in.
Term
What was the total cost of GWTW?
Definition
$3 Million
Term
What did the Will Hays Censorship Board have to do with GWTW?
Definition
Take out offensive material. Tried to take out the word "Damn"
Term
How many Academy Awards did GWTW recieve?
Definition
8
Term
In todays dollars, how much money has GWTW grossed in ticket sales at the Box Office?
Definition
$3.8 Billion
Term
"______________Gone with the Wind"
Definition
Margaret Mitchells story of the old south
Term
In GWTW what was the name of the man Scarlett wanted to marry but could not have?
Definition
Ashley Wilkes
Term
In GWTW who was listening on the couch as Scarlett told Ashley her most intimate thoughts?
Definition
Rhett Butler
Term
In GWTW how did Scarlett's first husband die?
Definition
In the war.
Term
In GWTW what did Rhett Butler pay $150 for at the auction?
Definition
A dance with Scarlett.
Term
In GWTW what was the name of the battle that the people of Atlanta waiting for the new of to determine the outcome of the war?
Definition
Gettysburg
Term
In GWTW what one person was most responsible for the delivery of Melanie's baby?
Definition
Scarlett
Term
In GWTW how did the Yankee's treat Tara when they used it as a temporary headquarters?
Definition
Took all resources and burned down the barn.
Term
In GWTW at Tara, how did Scarlett kill the Union Soldier that was trying to rob her?
Definition
gun shot.
Term
In GWTW, besides the North, as a result of the defeat of the South came another invader, the?
Definition
Carpet-bagger
Term
In GWTW, what did the Northerner's expect from African-Americans in return for their gift of 40 acres and a mule?
Definition
Their Vote
Term
In GWTW, what would Rhett not tolerate from Scarlett?
Definition
Dishonesty
Term
In GWTW, the name of Scarlett's baby was?
Definition
Bonnie Blue
Term
In GWTW, what caused the death of Scarlett's daughter?
Definition
fell of the Pony
Term
At the end of GWTW, Scarlett said to Rhett, "Where shall I go, what shall I do?" , and his reply was?
Definition
"Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn."
Term
Orson Welles first performance was ____________at the age of_____?
Definition
"Madame Butterfly" , three.
Term
Orson Welles made his Broadway debut and married Virginia Nicholson at age?
Definition
19
Term
Orson Welles formed the___________with_____________.
Definition
Mercury Players, John Houseman
Term
Orson Welles performed H.G. Wells, the___________________.
Definition
"War of the Worlds"(1938).
Term
Orson Welles Directed?
Definition
"Citizen Kane"
Term
Who was considered to be the best Cinemetographer (Dir. of Photography) in Hollywood?
Definition
Gregg Toland
Term
Who was part of the Visual Creative Team for Citizen Kane?
Definition
Gregg Toland
Term
Who came up with the idea to make "Citizen Kane" ?
Definition
Herman Mankiewicz
Term
Who was the co-screen writer for "Citizen Kane" ?
Definition
Herman Mankiewicz
Term
Chiarscuro
Definition
This term refers to a lighting technique where the use of light and dark images are arranged in pictorial composition. It comes from the Italian word the means Chair(bright) Oscuro(dark).
Term
Deep Focus
Definition
A style of motion picture photography that has great depth of field and brings all plains of the image-foreground, middleground, and background into sharp focus.
Term
Mese-en-scene
Definition
A French term meaning to dress a set. In this style of film-making the director has te actors perform the entire scene without editing.
Term
In 1939, the talk of Hollywood was a boy genius, who?
Definition
Orson Welles
Term
What was acclaimed as the greatest talking picture ever made which scandalized the life of Hearst, plunge the film industry into crisis, ad prove the undoing of Orson Welles?
Definition
Citizen Kane
Term
Hearst was making a newspaper for the?
Definition
working poor.
Term
Orson Welles turned what play into a spectacle set in Haiti?
Definition
Macbeth
Term
Hearst was elected to?
Definition
Congress
Term
What was an element to Orson Welles' success?
Definition
courted danger
Term
Who was offered the greatest contract in the history of Hollywood that was just what he wanted and the worst thing that happened to him?
Definition
Orson Welles
Term
Orson Welles shared his most savage portryal for the woman who shared who's life?
Definition
Hearst
Term
What was the driving force between the battle between Welles and Hearst?
Definition
Over the honor of Hearst's woman, Marion Davies.
Term
At his peak, Hearst was said to have accounted for 25% of the worlds?
Definition
Art Market
Term
Louella Parsons took 3 weeks off of reporting her column to do what?
Definition
Kill Citizen Kane
Term
Who offered $800,000 to buy the Citizen Kane negatives for the purpose of burning them?
Definition
Louis B. Mayer
Term
No review or ads were published in a Hearst newspaper for?
Definition
Citizen Kane
Term
What sort of film did Robert Wise think that Orson Welles was doing but not realizing it?
Definition
Autobiographical
Term
Orson Welles said that movie making is 2% production and 98% ?
Definition
Hustling
Term
In Citizen Kane, who were the five narrators that told the story of Charles Foster Kane?
Definition
1. Walter Thatcher
2. Mr. Bernstein
3. Mr. Leland
4. Susan Alexander
5. Kane's Butler Raymond
Term
What was the meaning of Rosebud in Citizen Kane?
Definition
Lost Childhood.
Term
In Citizen Kane, what was Charles Foster Kane's dying words?
Definition
Rosebud
Term
In Citizen Kane, C.F. Kane's decided to enter the business world, his company saying was?
Definition
"I think it might be fun to run a newspaper."
Term
In Citizen Kane, to reach the circulation of the Chronicle, Kane bought?
Definition
the Inquirer.
Term
In Citizen Kane, CF Kane wanted Susan Alexander to become what sort of star?
Definition
an Opera Singer
Term
In Citizen Kane, what action did Susan Alexander take when she felt she was a failure?
Definition
Suicide attempt by sedative overdose.
Term
In Citizen Kane, what was the actual object "Rosebud" ?
Definition
A sled
Term
Who started surrealism in art and who in film?
Definition
"Un Chien Andalou" Dir. Luis Bunuel/ Salvador Dali.
Term
What was a defining Neorealism film?
Definition
"The Bicycle Thief" (#1 film in sight and sound Magazine)
Term
Who directed "The Bicycle Thief" ?
Definition
Vittorio De Sica
Term
Who directed "the Seventh Seal" ?
Definition
Ingmar Bergman
Term
Who directed "Breathless" ?
Definition
Jean-Luc Goddard
Term
Who directed Amelie?
Definition
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Term
Surrealism
Definition
Starting in France in the late 1920's, this film movement was inspired by Paris painters and writers. It is best described as a dream- like state attempting to place the viewer far from reality. The images are often bizarre and aim to communicate with the subconscious. The most notable of the surrealist films was Un Chien Andalou.
Term
What film genre does American David Lynch embrace?
Definition
Surrealism
Term
Neorealism
Definition
Shortly after WWII, Italian film makers found a shortage of almost everything they needed to make prewar quality films. Forced to use non-professional actors, black and white grainy film, shooting on location and post dubbing techniques, Roberto Rosellini started the neorealism movement with his film "Open City"(1945). Open City's plot and other neorealism films often dealt with everyday social issues.
Term
What film became the most popular of the neorealism period?
Definition
the Bicycle Thief
Term
French New Wave
Definition
Starting in the late 1950's, young French writers working for the magazine Cahiers Du Cinema bored with traditional French cinema, decided to put their ideas to the test by producing a new style of films. The movement flourished until the early 1960's.
Term
Who started French New Wave film?
Definition
Jean-Luc Godard based on Italian neorealism.
Term
Cahiers Du Cinema
Definition
A popular magazine in which young French film critics like Godard and Trufaut wrote about French Cinema. In English it means the Film Journal.
Term
Cinema-Verite
Definition
Is a style of film making starting with French New Wave films in the 1950's. It featured the use of light-weight cameras that could be hand held, simulating documentary or spontaneous feeling. In French the term mean Camera Truth or Film Truth.
Term
What was the Jean-Luc Godard film that was made in the Cinema-Verite style?
Definition
Breathless
Term
Auteur Theory
Definition
Following the example of Citizen Kane, French film makers developed the idea where a film should be like any other work of art, e.g., the director should maintain control of their vision.
Term
Who was the French Film Critic who supported the Auteur Theory?
Definition
Francois Trufaut
Term
Symbolism
Definition
When something or someone conveys a meaning of greater importance that the actual object or person. For example, the sled (Rosebud) in Citizen Kane was a symbol for Kane's lost childhood.
Term
Who was the Director and what was the movie that he made that was in the Symbolism style of film making?
Definition
The Seventh Seal, Ingmar Bergman
Term
Who inspired the French to develop their own style of film?
Definition
Roberto Rosellini
Term
The French developed____________camera's.
Definition
handheld
Term
What was the highest grossing foreign film in the U.S. ?
Definition
Amelie
Term
In Amelie, how does Amelie's mother die?
Definition
Crushed by a woman jumping off of a building.
Term
In Amelie, Amelie left home and got a job at the Montmarte Cafe as a ?
Definition
Waitress
Term
In Amelie, what does Amelie find hidden inside her wall?
Definition
A tin box with childhood treasures?
Term
In Amelie, what was the object that Amelie's father puts near her mothers ashes?
Definition
A Gnome
Term
In Amelie, what was the object that Amelie takes from her fathers yard?
Definition
The Gnome
Term
In Amelie, what is the object that Amelie finds lying in the street?
Definition
A red bag with a photo album that has photo booth photo's inside.
Term
In Amelie, who is it that Amelie plays dirty tricks on?
Definition
The Market Owner.
Term
In Amelie, what is so unusual about her fathers gnome?
Definition
He sends photo's of himself as he travels around the world.
Term
In Amelie,, what job does the man with the red shoes have?
Definition
Photo Booth repair man.
Term
1896
Definition
Censorship Case, The Irwin-Rice Kiss
Term
What became the most banned film?
Definition
Birth of a Nation
Term
1921
Definition
37 states had their own censorship rules.
Term
What crime did Fatty Arbuckle commit?
Definition
Rape and Murder.
Term
Who created the Production Code Administration?
Definition
Will Hays
Term
What was the most censored film of the 1930's ?
Definition
King Kong
Term
Who was named the Director of Production Code?
Definition
Joe Breen
Term
What was the decision that film comes under the 1st and 14th Amendments referred to as?
Definition
The Miracle Decision
Term
1967
Definition
Bonnie and Clyde caused congress to consider censorship.
Term
Who created the Film Ratings Board?
Definition
Jack Valenti
Term
Who rates films?
Definition
The ratings are determined by a 10 member, full time Rating Board in California. Jack Valenti was instrumental in creating it. All had parenthood experience.
Term
In the Graduate, what sport did Ben star at in college?
Definition
Track
Term
In the Graduate, what business was Ben told that there was a great future in?
Definition
Plastics
Term
In the Graduate, where did Ben have an affair with Mrs. Robinson?
Definition
The Taft Hotel
Term
In the Graduate, who was Ben's father's business partners wife?
Definition
Mrs. Robinson
Term
In the Graduate, what does Mrs. Robinson say to provoke Ben into having sex with her?
Definition
That it was his first time.
Term
In the Graduate, how long did Ben's affair with Mrs. Robinson last?
Definition
Months
Term
In the Graduate, what was the reason Mrs. Robinson got married?
Definition
She got pregnant.
Term
In the Graduate, what promise did Ben give to Mrs. Robinson?
Definition
to never date Elaine.
Term
In the Graduate, in order to keep Ben from seeing Elaine, what did Mrs. Robinson threaten to do?
Definition
tell her everything.
Term
In the Graduate, how long did Ben and Elaine date before he decided he was going to marry her?
Definition
2 Dates
Term
In the Graduate, what form of transportation do Ben and Elaine use to escape the crowd after leaving the church?
Definition
Bus
Term
In the Graduate, during the last shot in the movie, Ben and Elaine's expression slowly changes from joy to?
Definition
Fear for the future.
Term
At what age did Director Mike Nichols with best Director Oscar for the Graduate?
Definition
Age 36
Term
1946
Definition
Box office peak (total admissions in one year).
Term
The Hollywood Unions...
Definition
had strikes.
Term
Congress held hearings for?
Definition
The House Un-American Activities Committee.
Term
The Hollywood 10 were?
Definition
sent to prison by Congress.
Term
The U.S. vs. Paramount case caused?
Definition
the studio's to no longer monopolize Theaters.
Term
What was the wide screen style of filming that was introduced in 1953 called?
Definition
CinemaScope
Term
In 1954, what percentage of films were shot in color?
Definition
50%
Term
What did the Picture Palaces resemble?
Definition
the ornate Opera Houses and Concert halls of the 19th Century.
Term
Who did the Studio Executives blame for the violent Hollywood strikes?
Definition
The Communists.
Term
For how many years did Congress investigate communist subversion, thus reshaping Hollywood movies?
Definition
15 years.
Term
What 3 forces collided in the Hollywood strike of 1945-46?
Definition
The C.S.U. , the I.A. and the movie Producers.
Term
Who was the highest paid movie executive in the nation in 1945 earning $20,000 a week?
Definition
Louis B. Mayer
Term
How much did Walt Disney pay the girl cartoonist's a week?
Definition
$20
Term
In 1945, how did Disney react when workers received union recognition?
Definition
Fired all the workers.
Term
Who became a driving force in getting actors to oppose the strike?
Definition
Ronald Reagan
Term
How much money did the 19 month strike cost workers in lost wages?
Definition
$32 Million
Term
In England it was an insult but what did Alfred Hitchcock regard film as?
Definition
an Art
Term
What Alfred Hitchcock movie did Bioscope call the finest British Production ever made?
Definition
The Lodger
Term
What was Alfred Hitchcock most influenced by?
Definition
His German experience.
Term
Alfred Hitchcock never won what?
Definition
an Oscar
Term
What was Alfred Hitchcock's ideal woman?
Definition
Blond, subtle and Nordic.
Term
What did Alfred Hitchcock exploit better than any other Director before or since?
Definition
our fears.
Term
What was Alfred Hitchcock known as?
Definition
the Master of Suspense.
Term
What did Alfred Hitchcock pioneer?
Definition
Camera and editing techniques.
Term
What was the sound era's most important film, #1 film on the AFI's top 10 and nominated for 9 Oscars?
Definition
Citizen Kane
Term
What did Citizen Kane win an Oscar for?
Definition
Best Screenplay (Mankowitz).
Term
In the 1920's films were?
Definition
Risque with drinking and drugs.
Term
Which organizations in the 20's opposed the film industry?
Definition
Church Groups (Clergy), Government (Law enforcement), Womens Groups.
Term
What was the 1st example of Neorealism?
Definition
Open City, Roberto Rosellini
Term
What threatened the movie business because of decline in audiences?
Definition
1. Film Strikes
2. HUAC investigations
3. 1948 US Gov vs. Paramount
4. Influx of Foreign Films.
5. Audiences moving into the suburbs.
6. TV becomes popular. 50 M sets 10yrs after debut.
Term
How did Hollywood fight back to regain audiences?
Definition
1. No movie stars allowed on TV.
2. Would not show movies on TV.
3. Changed aspect ratio to Cinemascope.
4. More color films because TV was B&W.
5. Large budget productions that TV couldnt afford.
Term
What was Alfred Hitchcocks secret obsession?
Definition
Voyerism
Term
What Hitchcock film brought him acclaim in England and was their 1st sound film?
Definition
Blackmail
Term
Who invited Hitchcock to the USA?
Definition
David O. Selznick
Term
Which film did Hitchcock and Selznick win a Best Picture Oscar for?
Definition
Rebecca
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