Chapter 1 Quiz Review - Film Studies
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- The Big Five
- Warner Brothers, Loew's, MGM, Fox, RKO
- The Little 3
- Columbia, United Artists, Universal
- Exhibition
- the division of the film industry concerned with the public screening of a film
- Distribution
- Division of the film industry concentrating on the marketing of film, connecting the producer with the exhibitor by leasing films from the former and renting them to the latter.
- Production
- Division of the film industry concentrating on the making of film
- Kinetograph
- Edison's first movie camera.
- pantopticon
- first projector that allowed multiple people to view the same movie at once
- nickelodeon
- a five cents admission movie house in the early 1900's
- patent pool
- an association of companies, operating collectively in the marketplace by pooling the patents held by each individual company.
- The MPPC
- The Motion Picture Patents Company - edison and Biograph's patent pool that controlled the facets of projection and camera technology
- vertical integration
- When a company is organized so that it oversees a product from the planning/development stage, through production, through market distribution, through to the end user - the retail consumer. In the case of the film industry, this translates to a company controlling the production, marketing, and exhibition of its films.
- trust
- a group of companies operating together to control the market for a commodity. this is illegal practice in the USA.
- first-run
- Improtant movie theatres would show films immediately upon their theatrical release. (their first run). Smaller theatres would show subsequent screenings.
- oligopoly
- where a state of limited competition exists between a small group of producers or sellers
- consent decree
- a court order made with the consent of both parties - the defendant and the plaintiff - which puts to rest the lawsuit brought against the former by the latter.
- free publicity
- free coverage of subjects which the media feel are newsworthy
- paid advertising
- promotion on TV, radio, billboards, and printed media
- tie-ins
- mutually beneficial promotional liaisons between films and other consumer products and/or personalities
- merchandising
- where manufacturers pay a film company to use a film title or image on their products
- independent
- a highly prblematic term, meaning different things in different situations. Here, the term simply implies a production realized outside one of the majors. Here, the term does not imply a production context outside the mainstream institutional framework altogether, nor does it imply a film produced in an alternative aesthetic format to 'classic Hollywood.'