Monday, April 12, 2010

Unit Test - 1940's Film & Film Occupations Review

You should be familiar with the following information:

Color in Film (technicolor)
Film Noir
Orson Welles & Citizen Kane
Hollywood during WWII (see Filmsite.org)
1940's actors: Orson Welles, Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Clark Gable, Bette Davis, Spencer Tracy, Abbott & Costello, Gene Autry, Joseph Cotten, Laurence Olivier, Katherine Hepburn, Gary Cooper, Cary Grant, Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney Jr., James (Jimmy) Stewart, Elizabeth Taylor, and Ingrid Bergman.
1940's directors: John Huston, Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Frank Capra, Billy Wilder, Preston Sturges, John Ford,
1940's producer: David O. Selznick, Walt Disney, Val Lewton
1940's films: Maltese Falcon, Citizen Kane, Casablanca, The Third Man, The Magnificent Ambersons, Walt Disney films, Horror Films, Film Noir, etc.
HUAC and its effect on film

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