Deck 8: Movies: Mass Producing Entertainment

Question 1

Ancillary markets for movies include which of the following?

A)international distribution rights
B)home video
C)toys and clothing
D)all of these

Answer 1

D

Question 2

In the 1930s and 1940s,the studios required theaters to schedule a large number of lesser movies in order to get one or two major films.This practice was known as which of the following?

A)block booking
B)right of first refusal
C)pickup
D)sliding scale

Answer 2

A

Question 3

The 2015 summer hit movie Mad Max: Fury Road was successful in part because ______.

A)it was part of the long-running Mad Max franchise
B)it featured a strong cast with lots of interesting roles for women
C)it featured lots of practical effects that gave it a feeling of reality
D)all of these

Answer 3

D

Question 4

The blacklist of the 1940s and 1950s was driven by which of the following?

A)a desire to increase movie profits
B)a fear of communism
C)a fear of terrorism
D)none of these

Question 5

The film that created the idea of the summer blockbuster was which of the following?

A)Gone with the Wind
B)Jaws
C)Star Wars
D)Superman Returns

Question 6

The large number of smaller theaters grouped together that replaced the large Art Deco movie palaces is known as which of the following?

A)multiplexes
B)Cineramas
C)blockbusters
D)Hollywood Tens

Question 7

By 2012,______ was the most popular way to watch movies at home.

A)VHS tapes
B)DVDs
C)blu-ray discs
D)streaming video services

Question 8

Eadweard Muybridge and Étienne-Jules Marey are famous for which of the following?

A)They conducted early experiments on depicting motion with photos.
B)They cochaired the House Subcommittee on Un-American Activities
C)They called television "a vast wasteland."
D)They were the founding members of the first disco group to have a record on the Billboard Hot 100.

Question 9

Which of the following was one of the earliest rebellions against the controls of the studio system?

A)the creation of talking pictures
B)the growth of block booking
C)the establishment of United Artists
D)the growth of color movies

Question 10

Among the earliest movie stars in the United States was which of the following?

A)Harry Warner
B)Humphrey Bogart
C)Florence Lawrence
D)Natalie Portman

Question 11

Who was the director of The Birth of a Nation,the controversial silent film about the Civil War?

A)Cecil B.DeMille
B)Edwin Armstrong
C)Charlie Chaplin
D)

Question 12

Once it was introduced,almost every movie made used which of the following technologies?

A)color
B)sound
C)3-D
D)Cinerama

Question 13

Reissuing of movies in black and white has become popular recently in part because ______.

A)black-and-white prints are popular with color-blind movie fans
B)there is a massive audience for black-and-white films
C)it costs very little to deliver digital "prints" to theaters compared to the cost of delivering film prints in the past
D)You're nuts.Studios don't ever reissue movies in black-and-white.

Question 14

Which of the following was the first major movie with multiple scenes and a plot?

A)The Jazz Singer
B)Gone with the Wind
C)The Great Train Robbery
D)E.T.

Question 15

The 2018 movie Black Panther had a huge opening weekend at the box office in part because ______.

A)there were large numbers of church and school groups going to see it
B)the movie had Hollywood's hottest young star in it
C)the movie was directed by Star Wars legend George Lucas
D)all of these

Question 16

Which of the following movies proved the value of Internet promotion?

A)Star Wars: The Last Jedi
B)The Blair Witch Project
C)Get Out
D)The Post

Question 17

Movies are often produced for the IMAX format so that ______.

A)they are guaranteed to be shown in close to 1,000 theaters
B)they can get premium ticket prices from fans
C)the directors can have a larger format to present their movie with
D)all of these

Question 18

Movie attendance peaked in which year?

A)1926
B)1946
C)1966
D)1996

Question 19

Which of the following was the movie that sold the most tickets of all time?

A)Titanic
B)Gone with the Wind
C)Star Wars
D)Avatar

Question 20

Who developed the earliest portable movie cameras?

A)Thomas Edison
B)Auguste Marie and Louis Jean Lumière
C)Étienne-Jules Marey
D)Eadweard Muybridge

Question 21

The movie The Fault in Our Stars was a profitable hit because ______.

A)it had a big name cast of stars and a big budget
B)it had a small budget and a built-in fan base from the young adult novel it was based on
C)it was released in 3-D,which allowed theaters to charge more for tickets
D)You can't fool me;The Fault in Our Stars was a box office flop.

Question 22

If the 1970s and 1980s were the blockbuster movie era,the 2000s could be considered the ______ era.

A)practical effects
B)box office
C)studio
D)franchise

Question 23

As of 2018,the movie Star Wars: The Force Awakens had the largest domestic box office of all time.

Question 24

The Production Code started in the 1930s to encourage "lustful kissing" as a way of attracting women to the movies.

Question 25

Director James Mangold says he wanted an R-rating for the final Wolverine movie Logan so that he could make it as violent and sexy as he wanted to.

Question 26

Why did the movie industry under the president of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America Will H.Hays begin to censor films?

A)Because Hollywood wanted to be responsible and not produce films that would lead to criminal or immoral behavior.
B)Because many states and communities were threatening to set up local censorship boards that might have inconsistent standards of what they would or would not accept.
C)Because actors and actresses had protested having to do nude scenes in films.
D)Because talking films seemed much more explicit to audiences than did silent films.

Question 27

Movie profitability is determined by which of the following?

A)box office receipts
B)home video sales
C)the budget for making the film
D)all of these

Question 28

The United States produces more movies every year than any other country.

Question 29

The Bechdel Test for Women in Film is designed to see how much violence is directed against women in movies.

Question 30

The surprise movie hit 300 was a success in part for which of the following reasons?

A)It was based on a dramatic graphic novel.
B)It controlled costs through the use of digital sets and backgrounds.
C)It had an audience-pleasing story.
D)all of these

Question 31

Hollywood's response to the rise of television was to do which of the following?

A)start making larger-than-life movies
B)start controlling costs by making lower budget movies
C)making more musicals
D)start basing movies on highbrow plays and novels

Question 32

Movies such as Dial M for Murder,The Ten Commandments,and Spartacus were a response to which of the following?

A)the rising size of television audiences
B)the production code
C)the Hollywood Blacklist
D)the growth of talking pictures

Question 33

Major movie studios like to release NC-17 rated movies because they know that they will attract large audiences at mall theaters.

Question 34

In the studio system,an actor,writer,or director could work only for the studio that had his or her contract.

Question 35

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow was a significant movie for which of the following reasons?

A)It was the first major American movie to be filmed with all digital sets and backgrounds.
B)It was the top grossing movie of 2004.
C)It was the most positively reviewed movie of 2004.
D)all of these

Question 36

Steven Spielberg's movies The Post and Ready Player One had very different box office totals,but both managed to make a modest return on investment.

Question 37

Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo wrote screenplays under an assumed name while he was blacklisted in Hollywood for being a communist.

Question 38

Young people who own lots of "devices" such as tablets,smartphones,and gaming consoles are unlikely to go to theaters to see movies.

Question 39

After World War II,movie attendance declined due to competition from television.

Question 40

Both the number of movie tickets being sold and the dollar value of all movie tickets being sold are headed steadily up.

Question 41

What movie technological innovation do Dial M for Murder,Avatar,and Gravity all have in common?

Question 42

According to movie scholar Todd Boyd,the solution for promoting diversity in movies is to get more diversity in movie studio management.

Question 43

India's movie industry in Mumbai is popularly known as what?

Question 44

Who was the head of the 1947 House Un-American Activities Committee?

Question 45

What are the three questions in the Bechdel Test for Women in Film?

Question 46

Directors are unwilling to make movies with diverse casts featuring women and non-White actors because such movies rarely see box office success.

Question 47

The movies with the biggest box offices are generally rated G or PG because parents feel safe about bringing their children to see them.

Question 48

In 2007,for the first time,movie fans could see the Oscar-nominated short films as digital downloads from Apple's iTunes store.

Question 49

List two of the many problems filmmakers faced when they went from silent to talking films.

Question 50

What major movie research project did Herbert Blumer work on?

Question 51

How did the producers of The Blair Witch Project promote their film?

Question 52

The movie The Blair Witch Project demonstrated that any movie,no matter how bad,could become a success if you spent millions of dollars promoting it.

Question 53

Long-tail movie sources such as Netflix and iTunes allow people in rural areas to see obscure movies that would never play their local theaters.

Question 54

"Whitewashing" is the process of getting rid of ugly details about the lives of historic figures when movies are made about them.

Question 55

Roger Ebert's movie review website gets most of its traffic from a small number of reviews of major blockbuster films.

Question 56

The faith-based movie I Can Only Imagine was a financial success in part because it appealed to people who were interested in a father-son redemption story,not just those who wanted a faith-based story.

Question 57

The financial success of movies like Black Panther means that Hollywood no longer needs to worry about diversity in the film industry.

Question 58

Disney "princess films" such as The Little Mermaid and Pocahontas feature dialogue primarily between girls and women.

Question 59

Big-budget movies can earn as much from ancillary rights as they do from the domestic box office.

Question 60

Jaws ushered in what era?

Question 61

Early Edison "peepshow" projectors in nickelodeons were known as what?

Question 62

In a brief essay,explain why writer/director James Mangold wanted to have Logan,the final Wolverine movie from the X-Men series,to be rated R.

Question 63

Which movie established the basic rules for cinematic storytelling that are still used today?

Question 64

What makes a movie profitable? In a brief essay,discuss the major elements that decide whether a movie will be a financial success.

Question 65

In a brief essay,explain how the movie viewing experience has been changed by the arrival of new technology.

Question 66

The movie and recording industries have faced numerous new technologies such as the VCR,the digital video recorder,and MP3 players.How have these industries reacted to these new technologies? Have they welcomed or rejected them? Why? Which of the Seven Secrets apply to this answer?

Question 67

In a brief essay,discuss why we have the movie rating system we have today,and where it came from.What are the major complaints about the system? How does Hollywood defend itself against these complaints?

Question 68

Some critics claim that movies with more practical effects look more real,or somehow better,than those with primarily digital special effects.Support or attack this argument using material from your reading.