A moderately successful illusionist and avid user of the magic lantern technique, Melies is the pioneer of special effects that create the extended realities found in today's films. While the Lumiere brothers just wanted to show what they could do with the development of film technology, Melies was interested in showing audiences a new world of fantasy. What he had at his disposal was a mind that “mythically attributes creative contingency to a purely machinic vision” (Cubitt 119). Melies brought his imagination to his films, making his actors appear and disappear through the use of stop motion, as well as through clever camera angles and clever framing. Its success continues to grow as audiences not only tire of the Lumiere brothers' illusion breaking, but also as its events would give birth to a new narrative allowing audiences to travel to different worlds. The inclusion of his stage credits, as well as the show, gave the audience a feeling of awe at what they were witnessing (Popple & Kember 72-73). Seen as a breakthrough not only in entertainment but in culture, its special effects gave audiences what they had been missing after the lack of life that had entered theater and other live entertainment. Through the dreamlike reality presented, the audience was able, for the first time, to experience their own lives through different individuals. Thus the thrill of cinema was born and the production that dominates the entertainment industry was stimulated to the greatest magic trick ever