【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】[听力原文] Even in its earliest years, film was developing its own style—a style that was distinct from that of the theater. But what do we mean when we speak of film style? To put it simply, style is the texture of a film's images and sounds. It's the filmmaker's systematic use of the techniques of the medium—for example, staging, lighting, performance, camera framing and focus. Editing and sound also contribute to style. A few filmmakers of the silent era were already developing film style, most notably in the editing technique of cutting. Cutting is when the action is broken up into separate shots, or pieces of film, and then the shots are recombined to tell the story in a coherent way. Before cutting, the action in films was like it was in the theater. The action took place far away from us. And it was continuous—it wasn't interrupted by any closer views of the actors. Early film critics didn't like films that looked too much like theater. Theater was a well-recognized art form with its own traditions and methods. However, film was something new, and well, it was an art form that owed its birth to the technology of the moving picture camera. The critics preferred to see stylistic camera work and editing—the techniques that set film apart from theater. A lot of critics felt that editing was the most important film technique. Cutting the change from shot to shot was regarded as the key to film artistry. Another film technique—called cross-cutting—made it possible to tell two stories at the same time. Cross-cutting is also called parallel action—it involves showing segments from two different sequences, moving back and forth from one to the other, so the two stories appear to be taking place at the same time. Cross-cutting was used in the 1903 film The Great Train Robbery. The film shows robbers escaping from the scene of their crime, and then it cross-cuts to a scene where the townspeople are dancing at a party, unaware the robbery has taken place. The audience easily understands that the two scenes are going on at the same time. The person who usually receives the credit for inventing most film techniques is D. W. Griffith. While Griffith didn't invent everything about film—actually he defined and redefined the innovations of other filmmakers—he created movies that critics and audiences recognized as a unique narrative form. This is because he perfected the elements of film 'grammar' and the art of the story film. What is the lecture mainly about? 录音开头提到，早期，电影就形成了自己的风格，这种风格与戏剧有明显的区别。接着从电影制作的技术(the editing technique of cutting, stylistic camera work and editing, elements of film grammar and the art of stow film)论述了电影风格，故答案为B。