Round 5: Tossup 13

A short film titled for this sort of artistic work explores the geometry of various curved and straight white lines that emerge and intersect all over the frame. Another film titled for this sort of artistic work was criticized for its five acts’ focus on machines, such as the depiction of lightbulb manufacturing, telephone operators, and moving trains. In the titles of two movies by German-based filmmakers Viking Eggeling and Walter Ruttmann, the word for this sort of artistic work follows “Diagonal” and (*) “Berlin.” In the 1920s, (10[1])films like Manhatta pioneered a genre named for this sort (10[1])of artistic work that refers to documentaries about cities. The word for this sort of artistic work appears in the subtitle of a silent film in which Max Schreck played Count Orlok. For 10 points, the subtitle of F. W. Murnau’s Nosferatu declares it is what sort of musical work “of horror?” ■END■ (10[1])

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