Silent Film Era quiz

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1. 1 Easy

   Where does the capsule hit the Moon in A Trip to the Moon?

   Answer: In the eye

   Why: Méliès filmed it by pulling the actor playing the Moon toward the camera on a chair running along a ramp.

2. 2 Medium

   What rolls down the Odessa Steps in Battleship Potemkin?

   Answer: A baby carriage

   Why: No tsarist massacre took place on the steps themselves, though the 1905 unrest elsewhere in Odessa reportedly killed hundreds.

3. 3 Hard

   Where was a lost Passion of Joan of Arc print found in 1981?

   Answer: A mental hospital

   Why: Its master negative had burned in a 1928 fire at Berlin's UFA studios, long before the Norwegian find.

4. 4 Easy

   How were night scenes often shown in silent films?

   Answer: Tinted blue

   Why: The tints worked as a code: amber or yellow meant daytime, while red marked scenes of fire or explosions.

5. 5 Medium

   In which city did the Lumières hold their first paid film show?

   Answer: Paris

   Why: It ran on 28 December 1895 in the Salon Indien, a room of the Grand Café, with a program of ten short films.

6. 6 Hard

   Which nickname did Edison's first film studio get?

   Answer: Black Maria

   Why: Built on a turntable, the studio could be rotated to follow the sun, which poured in through an opening roof window.