Gothic Cinema during the Silent Era

The moving picture was initially a novelty, really no more than a picture that moved. Perhaps the best way to appreciate the nineteenth-century’s reaction to the very first moving pictures is to imagine being handed an old snapshot and seeing the images actually show movement. Moving pictures, running only a few minutes and featuring such activities as a man riding a horse, a train pulling into its station or a girl climbing a tree were exciting novelties that enthralled those that gathered in empty store fronts to see them projected. Gothic cinema began during cinema’s infancy, when French magician George