The miracle of movies – early 68 mm film

From Aeon:

‘It’s not so much being seduced by a story. It’s the thrill of seeing in itself.’

During the first film screenings in the 1890s, viewers marvelled at moving images that had an unprecedented power to transport them to faraway places in an instant. At first, these shorts – which included glimpses of everything from Niagara Falls to elephants in India – had no narrative structure.