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Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat

Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat

Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat, Lumiere Brothers Auguste Lumière & Louis Lumière, 1895. Another of the Lumiere Brothers’ one-shot films, this time showing a steam train arriving at a station and moving towards the camera It has passed into film folklore for the incident that occurred at its world premiere, when the audience, unfamiliar with the cinema thought the train was really coming right at them, and panicked!

Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat

Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat, Lumiere Brothers Auguste Lumière & Louis Lumière, 1895. Another of the Lumiere Brothers’ one-shot films, this time showing a steam train arriving at a station and moving towards the camera It has passed into film folklore for the incident that occurred at its world premiere, when the audience, unfamiliar with the cinema thought the train was really coming right at them, and panicked!

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