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The Production Code was replaced with this classification code in 1968. |
Rating SYstem |
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Which of the following was the movie that sold the most tickets of all time? |
Gone with the wind |
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"Bollywood" is a term for this country’s film industry. |
India |
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Who was the director of Birth of a Nation, the controversial silent film about the Civil War? |
D.W Grififth |
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The United States produces more movies every year than any other country. |
False |
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What is an example of an ancillary market for movies? |
All Of These |
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Movies are rated by a board consisting of Los Angeles-area parents. |
True |
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The film that created the idea of the summer blockbuster was which of the following? |
Jaws |
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Ancillary markets for movies include which of the following? |
All Above. YO |
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The surprise movie hit 300 was a success in part for which of the following reasons? |
All of the Above |
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Who developed the earliest portable movie cameras? |
Aguste-Marie and Louis- blah blah blah |
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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. |
True |
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developed the Production Code, which controlled content of movies from the 1930s to the late 1960s. |
Will H. Hays |
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Hollywood’s response to the rise of television was to do which of the following |
Start making larger-than life movies |
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Movie studios are responding to the growth of movie piracy by doing which of the following? |
Releasing the movie to as many theaters as possible |
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Once it was introduced, almost every movie made used which of the following technologies? |
Yay for Sound |
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The large number of smaller theaters grouped together that replaced the large Art Deco movie palaces are known as which of the following? |
Multiplexes |
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Which of the following was one of the earliest rebellions against the controls of the studio system? |
The Establishment of United Artists |
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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? |
Block Booking |
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Big budget movies can earn as much from ancillary rights as they do from the domestic box office. |
True |
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When you watch a modern situation comedy on television that is filmed or taped before a live studio audience using multiple cameras, you are seeing the influence of which of the following? |
I love LUcy |
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The conversion from analog to digital television broadcasting was delayed by several months in 2009 because: |
many fears that some poorer consumers were not ready for the conversion. |
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The show Scandal is notable for which of the following? |
It’s the first prime-time network series in four decades to be led by an African American woman |
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The show I Love Lucy was controversial when it first came out for which of the following reasons? |
It had the white Lucille Ball married to the Cuban American Desi Arnaz. |
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All U.S. television broadcasting became digital in which year? |
2009 |
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Which of the following created the Public Broadcasting System? |
Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 |
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What are telenovelas? |
Spanish-language television soap operas. Like what Rogelio de la Vega stars in from Jane the Virigin 😀 |
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Cable television was initially developed as a way of doing which of the following? |
delivering broadcast television signals to communities with poor reception |
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Spanish-language television stations such as Univision can attract nationwide audiences that approach those of the Big Four networks. |
True |
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Network affiliates are which of the following? |
local broadcast stations that carry network programming |
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What is the fifth highest rated television network in the United States? |
Univision |
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Television networks are now showing more diverse programming for which of the following reasons |
They want to attract larger audience |
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Ted Turner helped reinvent cable television by repackaging programming for distribution over several separate networks. |
True |
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The major company doing television ratings in the United States is which of the following? |
Nielsen Media Research |
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A single rating point represents one percent of the total potential television audience. |
a married couple sharing a bed |
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When the VCR first came out, broadcasters and movie studios saw it as a great opportunity to expand their markets. |
False |
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Nielsen Media Research measures television audiences in terms of: |
ALl Above |
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The so-called V-chip is designed to do which of the following? |
stop children from seeing offensive programs on V-chip equipped television sets |
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The Internet and television are becoming increasingly separate media. |
False |
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