The arrival of a train at the station in La Ciotat
| Movie | |
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| Original title | L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat |
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| Country of production | France |
| Publishing year | 1895 |
| length | 1 minute |
| Rod | |
| Director | Auguste and Louis Lumière |
| camera | Louis Lumière |
The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station is a French silent film from 1896. Directed by Auguste and Louis Lumière . The film had its public premiere on December 28, 1895. The film was shot in 1895.
action
The film shows how a steam locomotive and wagons pull into the train station in La Ciotat in broad daylight and the passengers and their luggage get out of it and new passengers who were waiting on the platform get on.
background
According to several film historians, the film was presented to a select audience in a café in Paris on December 28, 1895 before its premiere . The evening allegedly ended with spectators fleeing the café out of panic, believing the train was about to go to the café. However, this is considered a modern legend and adornment for advertising purposes. The surprise effect of the film, as media scientist Johannes Binotto argued based on the film historian Tom Gunning, is more likely to have been the attraction of the new medium itself: "What the Lumières audience experienced was not the fear of a real train, but the horror of an obviously unreal and at the same time astonishingly realistic image. "
The film was shot from one take, without editing, on 35 mm film in a 1.33: 1 format. It was given the number 653 in the Lumière brothers' film catalog.
In 2020, an upscaled and resounding version of a classic black and white film was made: Arrival of a Train in La Ciotat, The Lumière Brothers, 1896 in 4K resolution and 60 fps.
Web links
- The arrival of a train at the station in La Ciotat in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The arrival of a train at the station in La Ciotat in the online film database
- Movie converted to 4K and 60 fps (with AI support)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hellmuth Karasek : Locomotive of feelings . In: Der Spiegel , December 26, 1994, p. 152.
- ↑ cf. Chris Baraniuk on themachinestarts.com
- ↑ Johannes Binotto : For an impure cinema. Film and surrealism . In: Filmbulletin , 3.10 (April 2010), pp. 33–39.