Deck 3: Film and Cinema: Part C

Question 1

Who among the following I & B ministers in the union government banned the musical instrument harmonium from AIR's music programmes?

A)B.V. Keskar
B)Indira Gandhi
C)Krishna Kumar
D)Vasanth Sathe

Answer 1

B.V. Keskar

Question 2

Akira Kurosawa's "Throne of Blood" is a free adaptation of a play by

A)William Shakespeare
B)Kalidasa
C)Bernand Shaw
D)Prem Chand

Answer 2

William Shakespeare

Question 3

The life of Eskimos is pictured by Robert Flaherty in his classical documentary……………..

A)Man of Aran
B)Nanook of the North
C)Nanook of the South
D)Man of Arabia

Answer 3

Nanook of the North

Question 4

French critic Andre Bazin's classic work on film theory in titled ……………….

A)Shot, scene and sequence
B)montage
C)Looking Glass
D)What is cinema

Question 5

Which among the following movies had a long speech of Charles Chaplin against the war?

A)Limelight
B)Modern Times
C)A King in New York
D)The Great Dictator

Question 6

Which among the following Indian film festivals is devoted exclusively to short films?

A)TIFF
B)IFFI
C)MIFF
D)IFFK

Question 7

Who is the first African American actress to win Oscar for best actress?

A)Whoopie Goldbert
B)Halle Berry
C)Viola Davis
D)Octavia Spencer

Question 8

Mike Pandey is ……………………..

A)a wild life film maker
B)a film critic
C)producer of a music reality
D)Hollywood film actor

Question 9

Sir David Attenborough is a renowned………………………….

A)script writer
B)film editor
C)feature film director
D)video documentary director

Question 10

Which among the following films has a sequence on the torture of the revolting public at the steps of Odessa?

A)Unchien Andalou
B)Battleship Potemkin
C)Spartacus
D)Birth of a Nation

Question 11

Which among the following films won an award at the Cannes Film Festival in 1956?

A)Bhuvanshome
B)Apur Sansar
C)Neem Annapoorna
D)Pather panchali

Question 12

Who directed Aadaminte Makan Abu?

A)Salim Ahamed
B)Sunny Joseph
C)Sohan Roy
D)Lenin Rajendran

Question 13

The French movie "Breathless" is considered as a/an………film

A)avantgarde
B)cinema verite
C)underground
D)neo-realist

Question 14

Treatment, a terminology in cinema means………………

A)synopsis of a film
B)a proposal for the production of a film
C)a short written outline of a film specifying how the story is to be told
D)summary of the story

Question 15

During the evolutionary period of cinema Eadweard Muybridge experimented the shooting of …………………………

A)a fireman extinguishing fire
B)workers leaving a factory
C)the sneeze of a lab assistant
D)the galloping of a horse

Question 16

Which among the following is a mismatch?

A)Bramstoker - Dracula
B)F.W. Murnau - Nosferatu
C)Claude Chabrol - Cries and Whispers
D)Leni Reifenstahl - Triumph of the Will

Question 17

Robert Wiene's movie……………first used the expressionist-cubist world of horror through painted shadows, the irregular non-perpendicular chimneys, doors and windows.

A)Warning Shadows
B)The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
C)Metropolis
D)Destiny