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then this strip of photographs could be run through a projector onto a screen

and it would appear as if the image was moving. In the 1890s

audiences in France would gather in public forums to see these moving images

displayed on a large screen with musical accompaniment.

The Lumiare brothers showed audiences things they had never seen before, moving images of real

everyday life, workers exiting a factory, a couple sharing a kiss on a park bench or a train pulling into a station.

But as if this wasn't groundbreaking enough,

another pioneer called George Melius realized that this new invention called cinema could be used to create art.

By using costumes and actors and sets and props, George Melius was able to manipulate film to tell stories.

He used clever editing tricks in which he could make people disappear with a puff of smoke.

He could make fairies fly around a room, and he could

make a rocket crash into the eye of the moon. In 1896, George Melius made a movie set in an old gothic castle in which a bat transforms into the devil and a skeleton appears in thin air.

This is now regarded as one of the first ever examples of horror cinema.

Join me as we continue exploring the evolution of the occult and we witness the birth of horror cinema as name is Mike and as ever I am your host.

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