> To be fair, after motion pictures was initially invented, audiences are legitimately frightened by things that were happening on-screen. For what it's worth,

> To be fair, after motion pictures was initially invented, audiences are legitimately frightened by things that were happening on-screen. For what it's worth, there's no record of that ever happening. There's been no account of this sort of thing, even in newspapers of the era, which at the time tended to exaggerate spectacles with catchy headlines, nor are there any police reports describing panic. As far as we know, people enjoyed the film and sat and watched it just fine. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/did-a-silent-film-about-a-train-really-cause-audiences-to-stampede https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/did-a-silent-film-abou...