Journalism 101 chapter 8
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Which of the following was first major movie with multiple scenes and a plot?
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The Great Train Robbery
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Why did the Hays Office, run by the movie industry, censor films?
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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.
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Eadweard Muybridge and Etienne Marey are famous for which of the following?
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They conducted early experiments on depicting motion with photos.
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The Production Code started in the 1930s to encourage "lustful kissing" as a way of attracting women to the movies.
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false
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The Bechdel Test for Women in Film is designed to see how much violence is directed against women in movies.
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false
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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?
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block booking
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In 2007, for the first time, movie fans could see the Oscar-nominated short films as digital downloads from Apple's iTunes store.
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true
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In 2015, the makers of the movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Green Legend angered theater owners because of their plans to __________________________.
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release the movie on Netflix and in IMAX theaters first.
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Spike Lee has maintained his independence as a movie director by doing which of the following?
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controlling the cost of his movies
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Which of the following was one of the earliest rebellions against the controls of the studio system?
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the establishment of United Artists
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Ancillary markets for movies include which of the following?
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international distribution rights network television rights toys and clothing
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The blacklist of the 1940s and 1950s was driven by which of the following?
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a fear of communism
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Movie attendance peaked in which year?
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1946
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By 2012, ______ was the most popular way to play movies at home.
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Streaming video services
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Movie studios are responding to the growth of movie piracy by doing which of the following?
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releasing the movie to as many theaters as possible
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Which of the following movies proved the value of Internet promotion?
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The Blair Witch Project
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The United States produces more movies every year than any other country.
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false
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Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow was a significant movie for which of the following reasons?
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it was the first major American movie to be filmed with all digital sets and backgrounds.
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Major movie studios like to release NC-17 rated movies because they know that they will attract large audiences at mall theaters.
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false
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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.
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false
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Directors often "re-cut" their films, taking out violence or explicit sex, in order to move their movie from an NC-17 to an R rating.
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true
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The film that created the idea of the summer blockbuster was which of the following?
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jaws
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The "Hollywood Ten" are the writers who made David Letterman a star.
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false
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Movie profitability is determined by which of the following?
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box office receipts home video sales the budget for making the film
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Atlanta-based filmmaker Tyler Perry was the nation's second-highest paid African-American in the movie business in 2010.
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true
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Movies are rated by a board consisting of Los Angeles-area parents.
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true
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Who was the director of Birth of a Nation, the controversial silent film about the Civil War?
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D.W. Griffith
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After World War II, movie attendance declined due to competition from television.
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true
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Once it was introduced, almost every movie made used which of the following technologies?
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sound
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The movie High School Musical 3: Senior Year was a profitable hit because:
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it had a small budget, lots of product tie-ins, and high video sales.
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Big budget movies can earn as much from ancillary rights as they do from the domestic box office.
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true
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Who developed the earliest portable movie cameras?
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Auguste-Marie and Louis-Jean Lumière
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Which of the following was the movie that sold the most tickets of all time?
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Gone With the Wind
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Hollywood's response to the rise of television was to do which of the following?
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start making larger-than-life movies, using newer technologies
