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One evening in December in 1895, a crowd of Parisians gathered to see the world change: It was the first public presentation of a device called the Cinematographe. Unimpressed, the audience watched as an image of a street was projected onto a screen. But when a horse suddenly came into view, pulling a cart, they were stunned. They knew they had seen the future. The motion picture had been born.Toulet, Emmanuelle is the author of 'Birth of the Motion Picture' with ISBN 9780810928749 and ISBN 0810928744.
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