Deck 8: Motion Pictures

Question 1

Which was the first Canadian feature film?

A) Evangeline
B) The Great Train Robbery
C) Life of a Fireman
D) Revenge of the Mounties
E) Jesus of Montreal

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Which term is used to describe movies that tell stories?

A) Story tales
B) Narrative films
C) Harlequin romances
D) Hollywood tales
E) Literacy films

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Which term was used to describe the first movies with sound?

A) Talkies
B) Sounders
C) Speakies
D) Noisies
E) Dolby

Answer 3

A

Question 4

How long are most narrative films?

A) 100 minutes
B) 60 minutes
C) 30 minutes
D) 90 minutes
E) 135 minutes

Question 5

Canada's first movie theatre opened in which city?

A) Toronto
B) Vancouver
C) Montreal
D) Halifax
E) Ottawa

Question 6

Which term refers to the ability to appreciate moviemaking as an art form?

A) Media literacy
B) Film literacy
C) Movie buff
D) Director's cut
E) Reel rebel

Question 7

Which was Canada's first movie with sound?

A) What's up, eh!
B) Marvin the Mountie
C) Gone with the Wind
D) The Vikings
E) The Jazz Singer

Question 8

According to Peter Harcourt,many Canadian movie scripts symbolically reflect

A) our ethnic diversity.
B) our harsh weather.
C) the beauty of our nature.
D) our differences from Americans.
E) our own social uncertainties.

Question 9

According to Denys Arcand,what is a similarity between French- and English-Canadian films?

A) Their resistance to American genre film
B) Their following of Hollywood rules
C) Their big box-office success
D) Their focus on Canada's natural beauty
E) Their attempts to be American

Question 10

How many Canadian feature films were produced during the first half of the 20th century?

A) 70
B) 7
C) 500
D) 7500
E) 500

Question 11

In which year did Toronto's Festival of Festivals,a precursor to the Toronto International film Festival,begin?

A) 1921
B) 1976
C) 1887
D) 1952
E) 2001

Question 12

What does the acronym CGI stand for?

A) Colour, graphics, and imagination
B) Canadian government involvement
C) Computer-generated imagery
D) Come get it
E) Canadian geographical intensity

Question 13

Which term describes what happens to movie audiences when they become caught up in the story?

A) Full body wonder
B) Breathtaking
C) Suspension of disbelief
D) Movie magic
E) Construction of reality

Question 14

What has always been an issue for Canadian filmmakers?

A) The language issue
B) Talented actors
C) Funding
D) Good writers
E) Success in the U.S.

Question 15

Which 1939 film was the first colour movie?

A) The Mountie's Red Jacket
B) Cinderella
C) Evangeline
D) Gone with the Wind
E) The Black Pirate

Question 16

Which of the following is a French-Canadian film director?

A) Auguste Lumière
B) Joseph Niépce
C) Georges Méliès
D) Atom Egoyan
E) Denys Arcand

Question 17

Why do movies often have a powerful and immediate effect?

A) They require huge budgets to make.
B) The screen is much larger than television.
C) Theatres insulate moviegoers in a cocoon without distractions.
D) The quality is always superb.
E) The stories always affect people the same way.

Question 18

Which is the highest-grossing movie of all time?

A) Avatar
B) Star Wars
C) Titanic
D) The Sound of Music
E) Jaws

Question 19

Three-dimensional CGI was first used in the 1976 film

A) The Abyss.
B) Jaws.
C) Futureworld.
D) Star Wars.
E) The Empire Strikes Back.

Question 20

Who was a pioneer in animated films?

A) The Warner brothers
B) George Lucas
C) Atom Egoyan
D) David Cronenberg
E) Walt Disney

Question 21

Which is the largest-grossing Canadian film of all time?

A) Porky's
B) Nanook of the North
C) Evangeline
D) Mon Oncle Antoine
E) Scanners

Question 22

Peter Harcourt claims that Canadian movies often portray our confidence and sense of nationhood.

Question 23

The structure of the U.S.movie industry is rooted in the

A) docu-ganda method.
B) documentary format.
C) Hollywood model.
D) studio system.
E) NFB regulations.

Question 24

Which of the following is not one of the Big Six studios?

A) Viacom
B) Paramount
C) Universal
D) Disney
E) Columbia

Question 25

Which of the following is not associated with Adolph Zukor?

A) Star system
B) Paramount Studios
C) Vertical integration
D) Horizontal integration
E) Production efficiencies

Question 26

Canadian movies account for which percentage of all screen time at movie houses in Canada?

A) 11 percent
B) 32 percent
C) 76 percent
D) 2 percent
E) 26 percent

Question 27

The term d-cinema refers to

A) dark cinema.
B) digital cinema.
C) domestic cinema.
D) director cinema.
E) democratic cinema.

Question 28

Canadian movies and American movies are basically the same.

Question 29

Canada has been most successful in which film genre?

A) Documentary
B) Drama
C) Comedy
D) Musical
E) Science fiction

Question 30

Which term is used to refer to a documentary that seeks to influence viewers?

A) Docu-drama
B) Docu-ganda
C) Cinéma vérité
D) The fairness doctrine
E) Ad-umentaries

Question 31

Who was a Canadian pioneer in animation?

A) Atom Egoyan
B) David Cronenberg
C) Walt Disney
D) Norman McLaren
E) Denys Arcand

Question 32

Which was the first movie created entirely by computers?

A) Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
B) Toy Story
C) Shrek
D) The Phantom Menace
E) Star Wars

Question 33

Funding has never been an issue for the Canadian film industry.

Question 34

Which independent studio was founded by a Canadian investor?

A) Miramax
B) Dreamworks
C) United Artists
D) Lions Gate
E) Warner Brothers

Question 35

Canada's first movie theatre opened in Toronto in 1906.

Question 36

George Lucas'S Star Wars is the largest-grossing movie of all time.

Question 37

The National Film Board was formed

A) by an act of Parliament.
B) as a Canadian major studio.
C) by various investor groups.
D) by independent investors.
E) when Sony bought Columbia.

Question 38

Robert Flaherty's film Nanook of the North began which film genre?

A) Animation
B) Cinéma vérité
C) Documentary
D) Talkies
E) Docu-ganda

Question 39

Al Gore's 2006 Oscar winner An Inconvenient Truth is an example of which type of movie?

A) Action
B) Political exposé
C) Animated
D) Documentary
E) 3-D

Question 40

Who was the first commissioner of the National Film Board?

A) John Grierson
B) Atom Egoyan
C) George Lucas
D) Denys Arcand
E) David Cronenberg

Question 41

The first colour movie was Gone with the Wind.

Question 42

The Warner brothers revolutionized movies with sound.

Question 43

The mandate of the NFB is to promote Canadian unity.

Question 44

Canada is most known for making very successful dramatic films.

Question 45

There is little doubt that movies can change a person's lifestyle or trigger aberrant behaviour.

Question 46

Animated films are the most labour-intensive to produce.

Question 47

Atom Egoyan was the first commissioner of the NFB.

Question 48

Documentaries generally cost more to make than other movies.

Question 49

Vertical integration enhances competition in the film industry.

Question 50

Filmmaking is relatively new to Canada,and the first Canadian feature film was made in 1962.

Question 51

Norman McLaren was a Canadian pioneer in animation.

Question 52

Suspension of disbelief occurs when a viewer gets caught up in the story.

Question 53

Docu-ganda films seek to influence viewers.

Question 54

Walt Disney pioneered animated films.

Question 55

Most actors are excited about the possibilities of CGI technology.

Question 56

Full-length documentaries are mostly played on the four big American networks-ABC,NBC,CBS,and Fox.

Question 57

The documentary An Inconvenient Truth cost a record-breaking $350 million to make.

Question 58

There are no similarities between French- and English-Canadian movies.

Question 59

At the height of the studio system,Paramount was issuing a movie a week.

Question 60

Unlike other types of media,movies have largely escaped censors and moral police.

Question 61

Television is often the only outlet for Canadian movies.

Question 62

In 1995,Disney`s __________________ was the first movie produced entirely by computers.

Question 63

Before the invention of video games,young men had been core movie-house patrons.

Question 64

With DVD sales and rentals,the movie industry is increasing its output.

Question 65

The National Film Board was formed by __________________ in 1939.

Question 66

Independent studios are often long-lasting.

Question 67

The major film distributor in Canada is Alliance Films.

Question 68

The movie exhibition business has been boom and bust.

Question 69

Movies that tell stories are called __________________.

Question 70

Disney fought to keep away from the television networks in the 1950s.

Question 71

__________________ occurs when you surrender doubts about the reality of a story.

Question 72

Canada's first movie theatre opened in __________________.

Question 73

The film __________________ is the first carbon-neutral documentary.

Question 74

Cineplex Entertainment LP is the largest movie exhibitor in Canada.

Question 75

For moviegoers,the least visible part of the movie industry is distribution.

Question 76

The first feature film in colour was __________________.

Question 77

__________________ is the ability to appreciate artistic techniques used for telling a story through film.

Question 78

In Canada,for 10 days in September,the Toronto International Film Festival Features films from __________________.

Question 79

Simple neighbourhood movie houses helped movie attendance to flourish in the 1940s.

Question 80

Canadian movie scripts symbolically reflect __________________.