Текущий контроль по теме “What do you know about cinema?”
тест (11 класс)

“What do you know about cinema?”

1. Read the text “How It All Began” and say how the brothers called their device for the demonstration of films.
                                                    HOW IT ALL BEGAN

     Auguste and Louis Lumiere are famous for the world’s first public film demonstration on December 28, 1895. The showing of ten short films lasting only twenty minutes in total was held in the Grand Café on the Boulevard des Capucines in Paris and would be the very first public demonstration of their device they called the Cinematograph which effectively functioned as camera, projector and printer all in one. Their work consisted mainly of moving images from scenes of everyday life. Ironically, as we look back in retrospect, in comparison to what film has developed into today, the Lumiere brothers believed it to be a medium without a future. They suspected that people would get bored of images that they could just as easily see by walking out into the street. However, their film sequence of a train pulling into the station reportedly had audiences screaming and ducking for cover as they believed that the train itself was about to plow into the theatre.

     Born in the Haute-Saone District in 1862 and 1864, with Auguste being the elder, the Lumiere family eventually settled in Lyon in 1870 where the brothers attended the largest technical school. Their father Antoine ran a photographic firm and both brothers worked for him: Louis as a physicist and Auguste as a manager. Louis made some improvements to the still-photograph process which was a major step towards moving image. Later the brothers patented a number of significant processes leading up to their first camera.

     The Lumiere brothers have shot 1,425 different short films. Their first films are often called the primitive documentaries. The brothers also made the first steps towards comedy films.

2. For sentences 1 –A20 choose the best answer from the suggested. Put a circle round

            the number of the best answer.

1     The Lumiere brothers are famous for …

        1  the first ten films lasting only twenty minutes.

        2  effective function of cinematograph.

3  the first public film demonstration.

2        The cinematograph is a … device.

1.  two-in-one                               2  three-in-one                            3  four-in-one

3        The first film was about …

        1  screaming audiences.             2  audiences ducking for cover.        3  a train pulling into the station.

4        Auguste Lumiere was born in …

        1  1864.                        2  1862.                              3  1870.

5         Louis Lumiere worked for his father’s firm as a …

        1  physiologist.                        2  physicist.                         3  physician.

6        … years passed after the first film demonstration.

        1  a hundred and eighteen                           2  a hundred and eighty                      3  a hundred and eight

3. Read the text and fill in the table.

4. Write a definition

a film without a sound-                                                  

to make a film-
a long-lasting film-                                                        

a film without colour-
not long-lasting film-                                                      

a film in which actors speak, sing-
a type of a film-                                                              

a film in colour-

• V. There are some names from the film making industry that are known all over the world. What are these people famous for?
• 1. Charlie Chaplin is famous for….
• 2. Mary Pickford is famous for….
• 3. Vivien Leigh is famous for…
• 4. Clark Gable is famous for…