It all begins in the dim light of a wooden train car swaying on the tracks in the late nineteenth century. In this early experiment in quiet comedy and romance, George Albert Smith captures that brief, secret moment that occurs just as the train plunges into the darkness of the tunnel. Two passengers, escaping the gray flow of the passing landscape to take refuge in the car’s intimacy, silence the noise of the outside world with a brief kiss. At a time when cinema was still in its infancy, this two-minute tunnel journey carries the first whispers of the language of narrative from behind the screen.