Pennsylvania Movies

2. Who in Philadelphia would win an Academy Award in 1955.
5. The new business of _________________ quickly emerged into a major international industry.
7. The __________was filmed in Eckley in 1970.
8. _______________ in the late 1900s attracted a growing number of filmmakers.
11. Who in the early 1900s built one of the nation's largest film production companies and theater chains, making movies at his 500-acre Betzwood Studios in Valley Forge?
13. Who from Indiana, PA, won an Oscar for The Philadelphia Story in 1940.
14. How many seats was the theater that the Warner Brothers opened?
15. Who said this quote, "I am very doubtful there is any commercial future in it, and fear that they will not earn their cost. These Zoë tropic devices are too sentimental a value to get the public to invest in."

1. To appeal to its primarily ___________________ audiences, the early filmmakers made movies filled with romance, sexual titillation, slapstick humor, satires of the rich and powerful, and other popular fare.
3. ___________ made Philadelphia an attractive location for feature films and television series.
4. What made motion pictures much cheaper than live performances?
6. The _____________ soon opened a theater in the steel town of New Castle, and then moved to Pittsburgh, where they started a regional film distribution company.
9. ____________ of Connellsville, PA, directed the world's first "story film," splicing together more than twenty separate indoor and outdoor shots in his path-breaking films video "The Great Train Robbery" and "The Life of an American Fireman".
10. After a series of ________________ forced Lubin in 1914 to close his Betzwood and Philadelphia operations, Pennsylvania lost its only major film production company.
12. At the dawn of the twentieth century, what city was a booming industrial metropolis.