-what was the name of the first film made by the lumiere brother and when was this?

workers leaving the Lumiere factory in march 22nd 1895

-what is the “phantom ride”?

When the camera is on a train usually with a camera man on the front looking down on the rails and moving forward.

-what was groundbreaking about the silent films “the sick kitten” and “life of an american fireman”?

In the sick kitten there is the first close up of a kitten drinking milk, and in the life of an American fireman there is shots which move into the house and back in to show the audience what happened while the fireman was saving the woman. uses idea of continuity editing (cuts between locations)

-what was the name of the first “film star” in hollywood?

Florence Lawrence

-why did the hub of film production in the USA move from the east coast of america to hollywood?

making films on the east coast you had to pay thomas edison for filming so they moved so they wouldnt have to pay. Also good weather

-which nations film industry does Cousins descrive as “the best in the world” in the 1910s and why?

denmark, sweden,

-give an example of two films and two diretors from this place and time cited by cousins as remarkable?

“haxan” Benjamin Christenson 1922

-who directed birth of a nation and why is the film continue to divide opinions among film critics, practitioners