Question Formulation
Five multiple questions.
- The shooting of a film requires high creativity, especially from which of the following?
- director
- cameraman
- editor
B writer
- What was the main problem that faced the development of motion picture production industries?
A Competition from other industries
B lack of adequate finance
C inadequate personnel
D there was no support from the government
- Apart from gold discovery in California, what else triggered its growth rate?
A film
B industrial revolution
C construction of railway line
D availability of good governance.
- Did motion pictures influence the moral behaviour of the community?
- yes it has because some of the sequences in movie series have unfolding events with naked actors,
- It depends on the type of film exposed and the people who are viewing it.
- No, it does not influence since each age has the type of film designed for that is suitable.
- Yes, it influences as most actors don’t have ethical, moral values.
- What was the main reason for California to be home of filmmakers from earlier ages despite it not being the pioneers of movie producers?
- The sound and favourable weather condition in this area providing beautiful scenery
- Because those come to produce wanted to escape being controlled by Eduson, the movie camera inventor.
C Because of the availability of railway transport.
D There was plenty of gold.
Question 1
What are the reasons that made Giannini support industry film?
(question from page 233 paragraph 5)
He noticed after giving financial support to the business in terms of loans, and the bank had was not making any losses. (page 233 paragraph 2)
He supported it because he discovered that men in the control of this business were intelligent, diligent and just able as men in any other big business. He found that the business was growing to first attract other company (answer on page 233 paragraph 6)
Question 2
What was the effect of moving pictures in the moral behaviour of the community?
(Question from page 235 paragraph1)
It became difficult to separate adults from adolescent because they were all receiving the same fare for comedies. Page 235, paragraph 6. Its effect was not impromptu rather were they gradually cumulative as the evil was not recognised till it was almost to repair page 235 paragraph 2. Behaviour altering was affected by the sequence of scenes displayed in a motion picture. A good example given is in the film called “Mabel’s room” the naked scenes are shown to children on the screen. That sequence affected young college student where they referred to them as “the hottest yet”. (page 236 paragraph 12)
Question 3
What is the progress that motion pictures have made to California from 1910 to 1930?
(question from page 245 paragraph3)
It created opportunities for people living in the area, especially actors, directors and stars of the film. Also, the local people established small houses where they were showing those movies. Designed theatres spread with people of different social status. (Page 245 paragraph 1)
Motion pictures facilitated the rapid growth of California whereby production film industry was built attracting investors to venture into this city. There were 28000 theatres where half of them found in the industrial centres of Illinois, New York, Ohio and other cities emerged as a result of movies. (page 246 paragraph1)