cinema

Question 1

Eadweard Muybridge

Answer 1

zoopraxiscope (projected moving images), precursor the movie projector

Question 2

thomas edison

Answer 2

Kinetoscope (early motion picture exhibition device where u look thru a peephole)

Question 3

Nickelodeon

Answer 3

movie that is a nickel

Question 4

Birth of a Nation

Answer 4

first american blockbuster (great commercial success)

Question 5

d. w. griffith

Answer 5

director of BOAN

Question 6

woodrow wilson

Answer 6

first president to show movie in the white house (BoaN) and he introduced segregation into the white house

Question 7

william trotter

Answer 7

white black activists, highly publicly meets with wilson and protests segregation and tries to pull screenings of BoaN

Question 8

birth of a race

Answer 8

response to BoaN meant to discredit the stereotypes in the movie

Question 9

Birth of a Movement

Answer 9

modern documentary that documents william trotter and the dialogue that was started by BoaN

Question 10

Georges Méliès

Answer 10

french innovator in cinema (special effects, time lapse, story boards) directed A Trip to the Moon

Question 11

blockbuster mentality

Answer 11

the economic pressure on media conglomerates to copy past movie successes