Vocabulary Builder Course 7

Lesson 30:

Word List

Choose the best word from the list provided to correctly complete each sentence.


1.		Special effects master Georges Méliès produced his first “trick film” in 1899, when he figured out how to his assistant into confetti.


2.		Most early filmmakers used their cameras to reality as accurately as possible.


3.		Méliès was a magician who knew how to perform seemingly tricks on stage.


4.		One day, his camera jammed and a carriage seemed to into a hearse.


5.		As a trained illusionist, Méliès recognized the camera’s capacity for .


6.		With the of his assistant, Méliès recreated magic tricks on screen.


7.		Some filmmakers acknowledge their debt to Méliès’ pioneering work.


8.		Others pay him a/an tribute whenever they use a technique he invented, such as double exposure or the split screen.


9.		When filmmakers began using computers to control camera movement, special effects underwent a/an .


10.		Digital effects wizards can now a chicken and a 50 foot monster.