The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (1897)

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1m
Running Time

October 10, 1897
Release Date

The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (1897)

6
/ 10
1 User Ratings
1m
Running Time

October 10, 1897
Release Date

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Plot.

Likely in June 1897, a group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a train. One is seen coming, at some distance, and eventually stops at the platform. Doors of the railway-cars open and attendants help passengers off and on. Popular legend has it that, when this film was shown, the first-night audience fled the café in terror, fearing being run over by the "approaching" train. This legend has since been identified as promotional embellishment, though there is evidence to suggest that people were astounded at the capabilities of the Lumières' cinématographe.

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Release Date
October 10, 1897

Original Name
L'arrivée d'un train à La Ciotat

Status
Released

Running Time
1m

Filming Locations
La Ciotat railway station, France

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Wiki.

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 1895 French short documentary film directed and produced by Auguste and Louis Lumière. Contrary to myth, 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. It is indexed as Lumière No. 653.

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