Lumiere – The arrival of a train

Lumiere – The arrival of a train

• In this presentation I will be analysing the lumiere brothers film, Arrival of a train at La Ciotat.

Introduction

• This film is just the arrival of a train at La ciotat Station, this is a 1985 French shot B&W silent short film directed by Auguste and Louis lumiere. ( The Lumiere Brothers ) it was first shown in January 1896.

- I chose this film over all of the other ones available because it was the most famous out of them all, and it had to best reaction. No one has ever seen a moving image at this point, so as the train was coming into the station everyone ran off thinking that the train was real and it would come out of the screen

Lumiere – the arrival of a train

• Through out the whole duration of this video there was no editing, it was just one shot of the train rolling into the train station up until everyone begins to get on and off the train. It was all a continuous rolling shot, not once was it stopped, this was because they used a cinematographe. This required the camera man to manually operate the camera by winding it.

No editing/ Continuous shot

Lumiere – the arrival of a train

• There was no narrative because the was no story-line instead it was an actual event. In this short film there was just a train arriving into a station where passengers were boarding and getting off,• In these times there were no storylines because there was no need

for them, the reason why the lumiere brothers filmed an actual event was because they actually had a camera, they were just trying to do something with it. In the 18th century sound couldn’t be recorded which is why the short film was silent

No narrative/ Actual events