But…It’s What You Don’t See

  In 1895, when the Lumiere Brothers first screened Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (which was literally a one-minute long, static shot of a train arriving at La Ciotat station), the audience immediately ducked beneath their seats in terror – the moving picture was something that the world had never encountered before; and for the audience, it was all too possible that the moving train might come right off the screen and crashing into them.... Read More