The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat, released in France as L'Arrivee d'un train en gare de La Ciotat, is an 1896 short film attributed to Auguste and Louis Lumière, consisting of a single fixed shot of a train pulling into the station platform at La Ciotat, France. A frequently repeated story holds that early audiences were so startled by the oncoming train that some viewers panicked or fled, but this account is not corroborated by contemporary written records and is widely treated by film historians as an unverified legend rather than an established fact. The film is nonetheless widely regarded as one of the most iconic and frequently cited works of cinema's earliest years.
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is an 1896 French short silent documentary film directed and produced by Auguste and Louis Lumière
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is an 1896 French short silent documentary film directed and produced by Auguste and Louis Lumière
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Created By: Louis Lumière, Infobox: director
Auguste Lumière, Louis Lumière
Created By: Auguste and Louis Lumiere, Infobox: director
Auguste Lumière, Louis Lumière
In Group: Pioneer Short Films, 1895 to 1903, Lead
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.
In Medium: Film, Lead
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.
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