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Film Appreciation - Trivia
Final Study
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Film, Theatre & Television
Undergraduate 1
12/11/2013

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What was the significance of the Supreme Court decision on Jenkins v. Georgia?
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Proved the value and utility of the voluntary rating system.
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This was the organization that classified films for ratings.
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Production Code Administration
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The name of this genre reflects its targeted audience and the celebration of its production style ad marketing scheme.
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Blaxploitation
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Name of the first American single-strip color filmstock.
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Eastmancolor
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Widescreen format that used an anamorphic lens, which "squeezes" the image onto the film then "spreads it out" when projected.
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Cinemascope
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Why did Francis Ford Coppola have to improvise the ending to Apocalypse Now?
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Marlon Brando arrived overweight and unprepared.
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The court case gave movies protection under the First Amendment.
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The Miracle Case
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What is the main advantage of early television compared to film.
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Free broadcasts
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The Technicolor three-color process was not practical for use on ever film because:
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It was expensive
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Comedy duo who got their start making service farce films.
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Abbott and Costello
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Innovative sound technique used by Orson Welles in Citizen Kane where characters "step" on each other dialogue or talk all at once.
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Overlapping sound montage
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This was the response from the film industry, supporting HUAC, renouncing and firing the "unfriendly" witnesses, in order to prevent government regulations of the industry.
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The Waldorf Statement
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