Since the beginning, all films were short. For early audiences, the novelty and thrill of witnessing man's latest technological triumph was paramount. But as the 20th century dawned, films began to get longer. The first films were presented to the public in 1894 through Thomas Edison's Kinetoscope, a peepshow-like device for individual viewing. The best known film from this time is perhaps the Lumière brothers' Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (1895) which apparently had audiences fleeing in terror as a celluloid locomotive hurtled towards them.
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