Introduction-Virtual Production: What Is Real?

After attending the first ever Lumiere film screening in 1895, H. Parville responded by saying: Its truth is unimaginable. The power of illusion! When you are in front of these moving tableaux, you wonder if it is not a hallucination and if you are just a spectator of or even an actor in these astonishing scenes of realism. At the general rehearsal, Mr Lumière had projected a street in Lyon. Tramways and cars were running, moving in the direction of spectators. An upholsterer came upon us at the gallop of her horse. One of my neighbours was so enchanted that she got up in a hurry… and did not sit down again until the carriage turned and disappeared. And we thought: Messrs. Lumière are great magicians.<p></p>