14 Questions
Which of the following best describes film?
A technology for capturing images
What is the intersection of art, industry, technology, and politics in film?
The impact of film on society
How did the creation of film come about?
As an accidental discovery
Which of the following is true about film?
Film is an illusion created by filmmakers
What was a huge technological leap forward in film?
Chemicals and light
What will be discussed next in the story of film?
The first motion picture cameras
Which term describes the process of capturing moving pictures?
Film
Which phenomenon keeps you from seeing the black spaces between frames of a projected film?
Persistence of vision
What is the illusion that lets you see a series of images in rapid succession as continuous motion called?
Phi phenomenon
What are the prefilm animation tools that used sequential images painted on the inside of a bowl or cylinder called?
Zoatropes
Who took the first known camera photograph?
Joseph Nissefort NIEPS
What invention became the first commercially available means of taking photographs?
Degerretype process
Who invented a way of taking pictures on paper rather than metal or glass plates?
George Eastman
Who invented the world's first motion picture film camera?
Thomas Edison
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