![]() There was definitely astonishment, they say, but no evidence that people tried to escape the building. But some film historians - notably Martin Loiperdinger and Tom Gunning - claim to have found no mentions of panic in any firsthand accounts of that screening. This account of chaos at the cinema has been around so long that it's often taken as an unquestionable fact. But the shock of seeing this moving image on a screen was apparently so great that people took leave of their senses. It's also safe to presume that the crowd wasn't a bunch of hayseeds - this was most likely a sophisticated, urban group. It's probably a good bet that everyone in the audience had witnessed an actual train pulling into a station. In this film, the camera is set up on the station platform and records an approaching train, which passes closely to the left of the camera and eventually stops to unload and reload passengers. The films are all one continuous, unedited shot, filmed on a cinematographe, which is a combination camera, printer and projector. "L'Arrivée d'un Train en Gare de La Ciotat" is similar to the Lumières' other films in that it is silent, very short (just 50 seconds) and depicts a straightforward, everyday scene.
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