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| Certain films are alike in their theme,plot, look, and character type |
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| The two type of genre's popular in America |
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| Generally considered a fictional film that tells a story |
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| This person is in charge of the camera and lighting teams. This person establishes "the look" of the film. A.K.A. THE DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY |
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| This is the heart of many films, it's where the action or drama takes place |
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| Person who oversees the conversion of a film script into a motion picture and has a vision for the completed project. Job can very with individual Directors, but generally Directors do any anything from overseeing casting, script writing, camera work, or editing to realize their vision. The Director works for the Producer |
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| A mechanical moveable device on wheels in which a camera is placed. Sometime it's simply a tripod on wheels. It can be a moveable platform that supports the camera and possibly the director, cameraman, and camera assistant. |
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| A film where the image gradually fades to black, "fade out", or a shot starting out black that gradually becomes the proper brightness, "fade in". |
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| The edited version of a film that has been approved by the producer and/or studio. |
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| Cutting away from a master shot to a scene showing greater detail or information. |
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| A wide shot that establishes the scene, it incorporates all the action from beginning to end. From this scene, the editor can edit medium, close up, or long shots. |
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| Lighting that evokes a mood such as horror, danger, romance, etc |
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| A horizontal camera movement |
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| The technique of intercutting between two simultaneous stories or scenes |
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| The camera is used to show what an actor sees as though you were looking through their eyes or point of view. Can also be called a subjective camera |
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| P.O.V. Point of View Shot |
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| This person is responsible for finding the script, director, stars, and financing to create a movie. It's the producer's film |
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| A film with all the scenes edited together in order but not timed to length or quality |
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| Actors placed in similar roles from film to film with little or no diversity. Indians, for example, were stereotyped as villians in most early Westerns. |
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| Coming attractions, previews, theatrical advertisements for an upcoming film. Today trailers are shown before the feature film but originally they were shown after the feature film |
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| A camera is mounted on a moving vechile to get fast moving shots |
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| A popular effect at one time to transition from one scene to another in which the new scene appears to push the previous scene off the screen. The movie Star Wars used this effect. |
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| When the camera appears to move toward or away from an object or person but in reality the camera is stationary. The camera uses a zoom lens. |
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| In what year did Eadweard Muybridge's Galloping Horse experiment? |
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| In 1882 who was the one who records the first series of live action with a single camera? |
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| In 1888 who invents roll film? |
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| Fred's Ott sneeze was the first film on record at the library of congress in what year? |
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| Thomas Edison applies for patent on willliam dickson's kinetograph (motion picture camera) in what year? |
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| In 1895 who first projected films to a paying audience? |
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| The lumiere bros, cinematographe, paris, france. |
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| In 1902 George Melies directed |
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| Edwin S. Porter's The great train robbery came out in? |
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| In 1908 _______ nickelodeons in the U.S. |
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| In 1908 this person became D.W. Griffith's cameraman. |
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| In 1916 Intolerance (D.W. Griffith) cost about? |
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| 2 million; four stories in one; parallel editing. |
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| Built by Thomas Edison. Was the first film studio in the history of motion pictures. Was built in the West Orange, New Jersey in 1893. |
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| These were short films of everyday life, documentations. Was first used by the Lumiere brothers in introducing their films. |
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| The Edison company, 12 of its USA rivals, and the Melies/Patent companies formed this. |
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| M.P.P.C. Motion Picture Patents Company; sought to control the manufacture and rental of all film equipment, as well as production. |
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| Hollywood was mostly runned by |
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| Moguls, first generation jewish immigrants |
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| Tonight Tonight by the Red Hot Chilli Peppers was a tribute to what 1902 film? |
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| A picture drum or wheel of life |
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| Who set up 20-30 cameras a foot apart to study the movement of people and animals |
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| Photographer Eeadweard Muybridge |
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| Thomas Edison was the first to use ___ celluloid film with a four perforations on the edge of each frame, the standard format used today |
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| Who helped Edison in 1891 built a Kinetoscope, a projector that allowed one to watch an endless loop of film through a peep hole |
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| His assistant William Dickson |
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| In 1895 the Lumiere Brothers built a ? |
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| Cinematographe; a combination move camera and projector |
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| Who founded the first film production company in 1896 |
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| What two french companies turned the motion picture craze into an industry? |
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| The men who ran the penny arcades quickly realized what brought the customers in was? |
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| The film that took motion pictures out of the slot machine era was? |
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| The natural audience for the silent moving pictures was? |
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| Were immigrants. They needed no English to enjoy moving pictures. |
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| What did they call early movies? |
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| Established producers banded together to protect their wealth. They were called the? |
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| L.A. proved a magnet for filmmakers because of its? |
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| Who is considered the Father of Film? |
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| Griffith based his movie The Birth of a Nation on what book? |
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| D.W. Griffith told his story from what view point in Birth of a Nation? |
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| The Birth of a Nation caused a racist problem. Soon after the release of The Birth of a Nation was released _____ was reborn. |
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| The film that started the fortunes of Louis B. Mayer and all the other moguls was? |
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| In 1910 who starting directing for Biograph? |
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| Mack Sennett; starting directing comedies |
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| In 1912 Mack Sennett started the? |
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| In 1913 who signed with Mack Sennett? |
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| What years did Charlie Chaplin have the most impact on film word? |
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| In what year did chaplin start making a million a year? |
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| In 1918 who did Harold Lloyd team up with? |
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| What was the most popular genre in the 1920s? |
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| In 1923 who joins with feature film producer Joseph Schenck? |
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| A film that appeals more to the viewer's emotions rather than their intellect. |
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| A mixture of various live acts: singing,dancing,comedy, and acrobats. |
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| A combination of comedy derived from the circus and vaudeville. This aggressive and violent comedy was introduced to films by Mack Sennett. |
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| When an actor expresses their part with gestures or actions without using words. |
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| Who was the pantomime genius? |
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| Mack Sennett stole his first ideas from? |
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| What did D.W. Griffith assign Mack Sennett to do? |
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| Sennett had a direct link to the? |
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| The one great comic before Chaplin was? |
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| In London 1921 who became the most popular figure in the world? |
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| Chaplin's own London childhood was the inspiration for what film? |
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| Who became the one comic who seriously rivaled Chaplin at the box office? |
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| Harold Lloyd character Lonesome Luke resembled what character? |
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| Around 7 to 8 years old Buster Keaton was called _______ in the history of the stage? |
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| Buster Keaton never had a ? |
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| Buster Keaton's most spectacular picture was the? |
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| Keaton was not just a great comic but also a great? |
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| Where did Speedy first meet his girlfriend? |
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| On the train station; dining |
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| Upon arriving to college speedy instantly became known as the class? |
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| At speedy's first football practice he has an encounter with what animal? |
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| While trying out for the football team speedy finds the team using him as a? |
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| The coach wants to cut speedy but one of the players suggests the coach let him stay on as the? |
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| What was the reason that speedy got into the game? |
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| all the other players were injured |
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| Its clear speedy has scored a touchdown when his ____ is covered with white chalk. |
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| Under what circumstances did chaplin first appear on stage? |
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| His mom being booed off stage, taking her place. |
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| Who was the relative that helped chaplin get into vaudeville with fred karno company? |
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| What was the act that chaplin did for fred karno's vaudeville company? |
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| Who was the producer who let chaplin direct his first film? |
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| Who was the man that said "to my way of thinking motion pictures are potentially the most influential form of communication ever invented"? |
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| Where was chaplin when he found out that he was being thrown out of America? |
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| After how many years of exile did chaplin finally return to America and for what occasion? |
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| 20 years later for the 44th anual academy awards |
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| What influenced Mack Sennett in his comedies? |
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| french filmmakers, circus clowns, and vaudeville comedians |
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| What inspired chaplin for his look "The little tramp" |
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| max linder (top hat and cane), fatty arbuckle (baggy clothes), mustache, and over sized shoes (slapshoes) |
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| The cabinet of dr.caligari came out in what year? |
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| Valdimir Lenin nationalized soviet film industry in what year? |
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| In 1919 Lev forms what in moscow? |
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| In 1924 the last laugh was produced by? |
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| Director F.W. Murnau, and cameraman Karl Freund |
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| Who directed Metropolis in 1927? |
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| A cinematic style that started in Germany, provides a distorted perspective on reality. Its main characteristics were exaggerated sets, dramatic shadows, unnatural makeup and stylized acting. |
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| With support from the Germany government, a group of small film companies were brought together just outside of Berlin to form the UFA. The original idea was to help support the german world war one effort by producing propaganda films. |
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| UFA, Universum Film Aktien Gesellschaft |
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| A french term that mean black film. These films present a dark, brutal and violent look at urban life: crime, corruption, sadism, bleak surroundings, dark shadows, contrastive lighting. |
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| A french term applying to eary russian editing experiments of creatively assembling various film scenes together to heighten or reinforce meanin or feeling in a scene. |
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| What movie was the birth of the horror film genre? |
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| The cabinet of dr.caligari (reality vs. imagination) |
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| The last laugh contained? |
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| no title cards, p.o.v. shots, and revolutionary camera shots |
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| What was the first great science fiction film? |
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| Which movie had the scene of the Odessa step sequence? |
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| The battleship Potemkin 1925 |
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| Which director trained his pupils in exercises in using an unloaded camera? |
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| Eisenstein created a hymn to the failed revolution of 1905 the film? |
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| The potemkin was nevertheless hailed instantly for what it was, one of the? |
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| What studio brought the silent era to an end? |
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| Suddenly movies had rivalry with? |
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| Which showing did people have to wait hours in line to see? |
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| the jazz singer (in the warners bros) |
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| In 1928 what was the number one imports coming from into the U.S.? |
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| the look, sets and lighting were important to the german directors in films |
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| In what year was the first recorded movie sound on disc in france? |
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| In what year was the first recorded movie sound on disc in france? |
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| In 1926 what was the first feature film to use vitaphone process? |
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| The jazz singer came out in...? |
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| 1927 (first feature film to use sync singing) |
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| In 1928 walt disney introduced? |
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| mickey mouse in steamboat willie |
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| In 1929 who liberates stationary camera? |
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| In the 1930s who was the top choreographer in hollywood musicals? |
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| What happened in the 1930-1945? |
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| 500 feature films where produced each year in the U.S. when? |
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| What film is registerd in the library of congress as a national treasure? |
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| Don lockwood got his break in the movies when he replaced an? |
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| At his party, Mr. Simpson had a little surprise for his guests which was? |
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| What was the reason mr.simpson stopped production of the dueling cavalier? |
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| While trying to shoot his first scene with lina lamont, dexter has a problem with what piece of recording equipment ? |
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| In order to fix the dueling cavalier cosmo presents what solution? |
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| to make it into a musical |
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| Who was the person asked to replace Lina Lamont's voice? |
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| In the sound era sudios lost their independence to who? |
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