modern movies began appearing in the late nineteenth century, and that the first screening of a movie for an unfamiliar audience is often credited to Auguste and Louis Lumière, French brothers who in 1895 premiered a short film titled The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station. The reel plays, and you see that the camera shooting the film was placed very near the railroad tracks and captured a train’s motion as it approached, leaving the audience with the view of an oncoming train rushing toward them. Apparently, the sensation brought on by the film proved unbearably scary for many viewers in
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