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L'Arrivée d'un train en la Gare de la Ciotat, (The Arrival of a Train at la Ciotat Station) is a historically significant short Film produced and distributed by The Lumière Brothers . It premiered on a large screen 28 December 1895 in Paris, France . The audience was reportedly frightened by the image of a Train coming directly at them, screamed, and ran to the back of the room. Hellmuth Karasek of Der Spiegel wrote, ''"One short film had a particularly lasting impact; yes, it caused fear, terror, even panic... L'Arrivée d'un train en Gare de la Ciotat (Arrival of the Train at La Ciotat Station)...."''. This is a story that has been repeated numerous times in many publications and by Word Of Mouth . The story implies a Primitive audience that were absolutely fooled by the realism of the Black And White Moving Image . This story is, however, highly suspect. The sophisticated Parisian audience, many of whom may have taken the train to the theater, were well aware that they were going to see a demonstration of a projected moving image. Film scholar and historian Martin Loiperdinger's original essay, "Lumire's Arrival of the Train: Cinema's Founding Myth" (The Moving Image - Volume 4, Number 1, Spring 2004, pp. 89-118) is a good source with which to debunk the tale. Louis and his brother Auguste Lumière also filmed '' Workers Leaving The Lumiere Factory '' that year. There are numerous aspects of this film that make it maybe the first icon in cinema history. First of all its point of view; the Lumière brothers knew what effect they wanted to get by placing the camera right next to the railway, and it turned out that they managed to astonish the current audience with just a "view" (the first films in cinema history were called "views" as they were composed of a single 50-second shot, editing wasn't around yet, and were therefore a simple view of everyday life). Another important and innovative aspect of ''L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de la Ciotat'' is its containing all the shots that will eventually become the base of filmmaking: long shot, medium shot, close-up. This was achieved by having he train arrive from far into the shot (front). With this film, the Lumières also broke the tendency to maintain the interest within a shot; with the train appearing (we don't see it at first) from far a way, and then cutting through the right and lower edge of the screen, they are making the audience aware of the space outside the shot. All in all, this film is very important to the history of cinema for it demonstrated the power of film for the first time, and given the elements described herein and some more, it was the preliminary phase, the first step into what we now know as cinema. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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