1890-1899

1895 Louis Lumiere premieres the world’s first cinema movie The Arrival of a train at La Ciotat Station.

1896 Parisien illusionist Georges Melies makes the world’s first ‘true’ horror movieThe Devil’s Castle. It features a large cauldron out of which ghosts, cavaliers, a skeleton and witches appear at the call of the Devil. Eventually the Devil vanishes when a cavalier produces a crucifix. The whole film lasts three minutes.

1898 Englishman George Albert smith patents his ‘special photographic contrivance’ (actually double exposure) allowing him to show ‘ghosts’ on screen. He premieres his film Faust and Mephistopholes.