With Halloween So Near,

a reminder of what we could expect to see way back in 1903,

and also as we mentioned only yesterday GeorgesMéliès, the above film titled, Le Chaudron infernal, released in Britain as The Infernal Cauldron and in the United States as The Infernal Caldron and the Phantasmal Vapors, is a 1903 French silent film directed by Georges Méliès, it was released by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 499–500 in its catalogues, Wikipdia sums up: “In a Renaissance chamber decorated with devilish faces and a warped coat of arms, a gleeful Satan throws three human victims into a cauldron, which spews out flames. The victims rise from the cauldron as nebulous ghosts, and then turn into fireballs. The fireballs multiply and pursue Satan around the chamber. Finally Satan himself leaps into the infernal cauldron, which gives off a final burst of flame.” a tad different from today's cinema, but so ground breaking at the time.