Cinema of Attractions

Cinema of Attractions was the first filmmaking movement. This movement consists of a bunch of weird movies with terrible special effects, but to people at the time, they were like the special effects in Avengers: Endgame. Those movies weren't very long and didn't have complex, deep plots; they were made solely to entertain the audience. Oh, and it's likely that your friend who loves cinema has already seen one of those films.

History

Don't ask me why this moon has a mouth and eyes.

This movement emerged in 1895 with the film The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat. The film wasn't very complex; it basically consisted of a simple train traveling to La Ciotat. But even though the film was simple and of mediocre quality, it was a major novelty at the time. The other major novelty was the 1902 film A Trip to the Moon, which consisted of a bunch of idiots going to the moon and smashing it. The other major film of this movement was The Great Train Robbery, which featured a crazy guy robbing a train.

Films with the movement's characteristics continued to be produced, but for some reason, the movement came to an end in the early 1910s.

Prominent filmmakers of the movement

Georges Méliès

He's the guy who directed the movie A Trip to the Moon. Before directing the film, he was a magician, but he realized that directing movies was safer than being a magician, so he stopped being a magician.