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Explosion of a Motor Car
1900 · Film · short · 2 min
Directed by Cecil M. Hepworth
An early trick film where a car explodes and body parts fall from the sky. A policeman witnesses and attempts to piece the remains back together.
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Btw, ‘Explosion of a Motor Car’, also by Hepworth, might be closer to now-familiar grindhouse cinema, and also had some special effects: https://archive.org/details/silent-explosion-of-a-motor-car
But yeah, about the OP film Wikipedia notes:
> As in other instances of the very earliest films, the film presents the audience with the images of a shocking experience, without further narrative exposition.
So indeed the genre seems to have proliferated right away.