L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de la Ciotat

L'arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat and The Arrival of the Mail Train, and in the United Kingdom the film is known as Train Pulling into a Station is an 1895 French short black-and-white silent 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. This 50-second silent film shows the entry of a train pulled by a steam... locomotive into a train station in the French coastal town of La Ciotat. Like most of the early Lumière films, L'arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat consists of a single, unedited view illustrating an aspect of everyday life. There is no apparent intentional camera movement, and the film consists of one continuous real-time shot. This 50-second movie was filmed in La Ciotat, Bouches-du-Rhône, France.
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