In this essay I will be looking at how cinema used to be an attraction of the time and whether it is still considered an attraction now-a-days. I'll be looking at two articles that relate to this topic, Cinema of Attraction by Tom Gunning and Cinema of Attraction Reloaded by Wanda Strauven. Tom Gunning's 'Cinema of Attraction' follows the idea that cinema becomes more narratively based after 1906/7 and that the idea that Cinema is no longer an attraction. Pre-1906/7 people would normally visit cinemas to see the technology of film rather than go to see a narrative film. Wanda Strauvan's 'Cinema of Attractions Reload' looks at the same topics as Tom Gunning's 'Cinema of Attraction' as well as looking at more modern cinema to see if its still an attraction in the eyes of todays audiences. 'Cinema of Attraction Reloaded' also looks at a number of other articles that can relate to the topic of whether cinema is not an attraction of modern times, which include Malte Hagener's 'Programming Attractions' and 'The Hollywood Cobweb: New Laws of Attraction' by Dick Tomasovic Before cinemas, audiences would have to visit town halls, cafes or even traveling fairgrounds to see the spectacle of film, many of these early exhibition films didn't follow a narrative but instead allowed the audience to be captivated through the technology and the movement of the picture, Within 'Cinema of attractions' Tom Gunning states that 'the cinema of attractions directly solicits spectator attention, inciting visual curiosity and supplying pleasure through an exciting spectacle' this means that audiences would visit a cinema for the experience of seeing film and new technology rather than seeing it because it was a narrative based film. With the unimportance of narrative film making, showmen who had cinema in their fairground or circus would often re-edit the footage that they had purchased, by doing this, it shows that audience of this time would go to the cinema