Q 01/05

Who directed Metropolis (1927), the first sci-fi film on UNESCO's Memory of the World register?

A) Fritz Lang

B) Georg Wilhelm Pabst

C) Robert Wiene

D) F. W. Murnau

Answer · why

A) Fritz Lang

Fritz Lang directed Metropolis; its budget ballooned to about 5.3 million Reichsmarks, several times what was planned, and nearly bankrupted the UFA s...

Q 02/05

A near-complete 16 mm print of Metropolis, restoring lost footage, was found in 2008 in which country?

A) Mexico

B) Argentina

C) Australia

D) New Zealand

Answer · why

B) Argentina

The print turned up in Argentina, at the Museo del Cine in Buenos Aires; the 16 mm reduction negative let restorers put back roughly 25 minutes of the...

Q 03/05

What is the giant robot accompanying Klaatu in The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) called?

A) Robby

B) Tobor

C) Gort

D) Kronos

Answer · why

C) Gort

The robot is Gort; the phrase Helen Benson must say to it, 'Klaatu barada nikto', was famously quoted by Ash in Sam Raimi's Army of Darkness.

Q 04/05

Bernard Herrmann's score for The Day the Earth Stood Still featured two of which electronic instrument?

A) Moog synthesizer

B) Hammond organ

C) Ondes Martenot

D) Theremin

Answer · why

D) Theremin

The instrument is the Theremin: Herrmann used two of them, paired with electric violin, cello and bass, and the wail became shorthand for flying sauce...

Q 05/05

Which 1956 film set on Altair IV was the first movie with an entirely electronic score?

A) Forbidden Planet

B) This Island Earth

C) Invaders from Mars

D) The Blob

Answer · why

A) Forbidden Planet

Forbidden Planet's score was built by Bebe and Louis Barron from circuits they made themselves; the musicians' union kept them from a composing credit...