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The Film File
A train chugs into a station, and the audience screams in terror and ducks under the seats. It is 1895, everyone's favorite moment in film history--the time of naivete when the cinema was born. The audience that turned up for the Lumiere brothers' pioneering exhibition, in Paris, was not yet comfortable with the idea of illusion. The image onscreen was not just a picture of something real; it was reality itself. That idea hasn't quite faded: to some degree, many of us still believe that the cinema has a scandalously intimate connection with life. After all, movies are a photographic medium in which figures tread across the ...