L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat (1896)

Original title

L'arrivée d'un train à La Ciotat

Directed by

Auguste Lumière, Louis Lumière

Genre

documentary film, silent film

Country

France

Runtime

50 min

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 540 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A train pulls into a station. People and baggage wait on the platform as the train arrives.

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What happens

L'arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat (translated from French into English as The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station, Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat [US] and The Arrival of the Mail Train, and in the United Kingdom as Train Pulling into a Station) is an 1896 French short silent documentary film directed and produced by Auguste and Louis Lumière. Contrary to popular belief, it was not shown at the Lumières' first public film screening on 28 December 1895 in Paris, France: the programme of ten films shown that day makes no mention of it. Its first public showing took place in January 1896 in Lyon. It is indexed as Lumière No. 653. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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