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

L'arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat
An early Lumière advertisement
Directed by
Produced by
  • Auguste Lumière
  • Louis Lumière
CinematographyLouis Lumière
Production
company
Société Lumière
Distributed bySociété Lumière
Release date
  • 25 January 1896 (1896-01-25)
Running time
50 seconds
CountryFrance
LanguageSilent

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. 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 in Lyon. It is indexed as Lumière No. 653.