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John Kelso's Movie Quiz

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1. What was the first videotape and laserdisc to have digital audio?

Wings (1927). The organ score by Gaylord Carter was recorded and released by Paramount in 1984 in digital audio.

2. What year was the original title of Star Wars changed to Star Wars Episode IV A New Hope?

April 10, 1981 for a two week re-issue.

3. What is the original title of Star Trek II - The Wrath of Khan (1982)?

Star Trek - The Wrath of Khan. The Roman numeral II was added to the on screen title for the video release. This was also the first sell-through VHS release at $39.95.

4. What was Buster Keaton's favorite film that he saw in his lifetime?

Charlie Chaplin's The Kid (1921) according to his late widow Eleanor Keaton at the Third Keaton Celebration in Iola, Kansas in 1995.

5. What decomposes faster than nitrate film and has a shelf life of possibly less than 10 years average?

Videotape - It has an oxide-binder problem which is the effect of separating the emulsion from the base, and also has problems with print through and magnetic debris. The life of tape is also dependent upon the stock itself.

6. What film is still being banned by the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library and Washburn University's Annual Kansas Silent Film Festival?

D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (1915) for its content. The people running the festival are afraid of riots breaking out if it were shown, even though it played at the Uptown Theatre in 1970 in Wichita, Kansas for a week with Federico Fellini's La Strada (1954) with no problems what so ever!

7. Harold Lloyd's first talkie, Welcome Danger, released Oct. 20, 1929 cost $979,828 to make. Why did it cost so much to make?

Harold Lloyd completed Welcome Danger as a silent. During a preview of his new picture, he saw a two reel comedy in sound and the audience was laughing and having a blast with the sound effects such as pouring of water, the frying of eggs, the clinking of ice in a glass, etc. So Harold dubbed half the picture with a wildtrack of dialogue over silent footage and filmed the other half with dialogue and effects as his first talkie.

8. How many versions of Welcome Danger (1929) were released?

Three versions:
The original silent version without a soundtrack. This wasn't a re-edited version of the talkie, like so many silents were.
The all-talking version.
Foreign version was the silent version with a music and effects track.

9. What was Anthony Quinn's favorite picture that he made?

Lion of the Desert (1981)
This was told by Anthony Quinn to Robert Osborne on TCM in Private Screenings - Anthony Quinn (1999).

10. What do The Color Purple (1985) and The Gangs of New York (2002) have in common?

The Color Purple was nominated for 14 Academy Awards and The Gangs of New York for 10 Academy Awards and won none.

11. How many times has the play Chicago by Maurine Watkins been filmed?

3 times.

12. Who played Roxie Hart in each version and what year did these versions come out?

Chicago - Phyllis Haver - 1927
Roxie Hart - Ginger Rogers - 1942
Chicago - Rene Zellweger - 2002

13. What was Warner Bros. first all-talkie?

The Lights of New York released on July 8, 1928 at a cost of $23,000. The picture only ran for a total of 57 minutes but it made over a million dollars in profit.

14. What was the line to come out of Lights of New York to enter popular American speech.

Take Him For A Ride!