Deck 8: Photography and Filmmaking

Question 1

One problem with the daguerreotype is __________.

A) colors are not true to life
B) the lengthy time needed for exposures
C) the images are neither precise nor accurate
D) it does not work in sunlight

Answer 1

B

Question 2

The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari is an example of the __________ style of filmmaking.

A) Pictorialist
B) Documentary
C) Expressionist
D) Cinematography

Answer 2

C

Question 3

In the 1920s __________ formed the "straight photography" movement in which objects were recorded in sharp focus with attention given to their details.

A) Elizabeth Sunday
B) Alfred Stieglitz
C) Edward Weston
D) Olivia Parker

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Ordinary television signals are transmitted __________.

A) through telephone wires
B) through the air
C) by electric current wired into the walls of a house
D) from a central switching station in the high Rocky Mountains

Question 5

Dorothea Lange's photograph Migrant Mother,Nipomo,California ,is an example of __________ photography.

A) essential
B) cropped
C) perspective
D) documentary

Question 6

When a series of still images seem to merge and look like continuous movement it is because of the principle called __________.

A) eyelines
B) persistence of vision
C) flashback
D) digital photography

Question 7

At the end of the nineteenth century the __________ movement sought to make photographs look like paintings.

A) Pictorialist
B) Photogenic
C) Reverie
D) Posterity

Question 8

The computer-generated images used in realistic movies to show things like alien invasions,explosions,or tornadoes are called __________.

A) special effects
B) imitations of life
C) rashomon effects
D) cinematography

Question 9

The photographer best known for his experiments in placing still pictures into a sequence to analyze motion is __________.

A) Eadweard Muybridge
B) Donna Hamil Talman
C) Henri Cartier-Bresson
D) J.-N. Niépce

Question 10

The __________ offers an example of how,before the advent of color photography,patrons had themselves photographed before a false backdrop with details hand painted.

A) Sunday on the Banks of the Marne
B) The Terminal
C) Botanical Specimens
D) Portrait of a Landowner

Question 11

The purpose of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Jane Morris was to __________.

A) serve as a study for a drawing
B) illustrate posture to an anatomy class
C) create a formal photographic portrait
D) experiment with flash photography

Question 12

In a film,the splicing together of a variety of shots at the editing stage is called a __________.

A) flashback
B) zoetrope
C) avant-garde
D) montage

Question 13

The photographs of Ansel Adams have played a major role in __________.

A) his landscape paintings
B) locating parcels of land for commercial development
C) land conservation efforts
D) Pictorialist photography

Question 14

William Henry Fox Talbot's early techniques yielded a "negative" called a(n)__________.

A) photogram
B) slide image
C) projection
D) emulsion print

Question 15

One of the very earliest popular uses of photography was __________.

A) taking snapshots at family gatherings
B) for portraits whose aim was capturing a perfect likeness
C) being able to take pocket-sized cameras when traveling
D) using a hidden camera

Question 16

The filmmaker Satyajit Ray is well known for __________.

A) animated films
B) disaster films that tell the story of India's monsoon season
C) documentaries
D) films that capture the lives of ordinary people

Question 17

The word photography is Greek for __________.

A) "pictures without words"
B) "light in a box"
C) "images on paper"
D) "writing with light"

Question 18

When a single scene in a film continues for several minutes with no break it is called __________.

A) montage
B) a deep focus shot
C) an extended take
D) an illusion

Question 19

A big improvement in photography,based on Fox Talbot's work,was __________.

A) keeping light out of the process
B) taking a long time for exposures
C) the development of a means of creating multiple copies of an image
D) the zoom lens

Question 20

From the time of the Renaissance,some artists used a camera obscura,which was a __________.

A) hidden camera
B) mechanical drawing device
C) dark room or box that used light to show images on a surface
D) device for keeping unwanted light out of the artist's studio

Question 21

Installations use sound,projection,and objects to create a virtual environment that evokes sensations in its viewers.

Question 22

The camera can capture only as much as the human eye can perceive.

Question 23

For the past few decades videos by fine artists have been included in the collections of great museums.

Question 24

The content of Leni Riefenstahl's film The Triumph of the Will is usually considered merely documentary.

Question 25

Digital imaging can build up lushly detailed works; simultaneously,it can delete details so that the focus falls upon a single object.