When Auguste Lumière and Louis Lumière (the Lumière Brothers) showed their single-reel film at a Parisian cafe, the people fled thinking that the train will run over them.
When I read above sentence in an article recently, my first impulse was to laugh at the naivete of the audience - given that this is an era of 3D movies. But it was the first public exhibition of a motion picture so it is not hard to imagine the terror the audience must have felt.
If you want to watch this 50 second clip, check out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dgLEDdFddk
When I read above sentence in an article recently, my first impulse was to laugh at the naivete of the audience - given that this is an era of 3D movies. But it was the first public exhibition of a motion picture so it is not hard to imagine the terror the audience must have felt.
If you want to watch this 50 second clip, check out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dgLEDdFddk
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