Daily Archives: February 20, 2022

Can you imagine being an audience remember at one of Gaspard Robertson’s “Fantasmagorie” shows in 1797? What do you think your reaction would have been? Can you think of any form of entertainment that would elicit the same emotions today? (Re-)read/watch these resources for inspiration:

I would be terrified because when the film isn’t popular during that time, it is like modern time when something can’t be proven by science we would be in fear. When comparing current time and back then because since there’s a lot of horror film in modern time but when you compare it that back then you can easily tell why people can say the “gosht were real”, from the lack of experience. Probably any horror movies because I’m not a fan of that category.

If I was an audience at one of Gaspard Robertson’s “Fantasmagorie” shows in 1797, I would honestly be horrified at the sight of something I didn’t witness before. At that era, I would have no experience of seeing images and projections of something supernatural, thus it would make me react like almost like some of the people from back in that time when they used to be at the edge of their seats. I think I would simply be just scared and have excitement as well but not take it as real because I would probably not believe in the fictional creatures even at that time; the same way I don’t believe in them in reality. One way I think its possible to awaken that same fear from people as if they are seeing it for the first time is have the theaters play the horror movies with higher volume of audio when it comes to jump scares and have creepy vibes before it so it builds up that that tension. And have low light in the room so that a cosplayer can spook them in real life.