L'arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat is an 1896 French short silent documentary film directed and produced by Auguste and Louis Lumière.
An early Lumière advertisement
The train moving directly towards the camera was said to have terrified spectators at the first screening, a claim that has been called an urban legend.
The La Ciotat train station (shown here in 2010) commemorates the film.
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The Lumière brothers, Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas Lumière and Louis Jean Lumière, were French manufacturers of photography equipment, best known for their Cinématographe motion picture system and the
L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat
…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…
Auguste (left) and Louis Lumière, c. 1895
Early advertising poster for Cinématographe screenings, by Henri Brispot, 1896
Autochrome colour picture by Jean-Baptiste Tournassoud of North-African soldiers, Pas-de-Calais, France, 1915
Their father's house in Lyon houses the Institut Lumière museum.