Red Mallard Video Blog, May 2020
You’ve likely heard the story of Lumière’s 1896 short film L’Arrivée d’un train en gare de La Ciotat, where unwitting audience members frantically fled the theater as an oncoming locomotive raced toward the screen. While it turns out the story is more urban legend than fact, a kernel of truth remains: there is an inherent emotional power in the moving image.