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Arrivée d'un train à La Ciotat / Le Voyage dans la lune

L' Arrivée d'un train à La Ciotat / Le Voyage dans la lune

Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat / A Trip to the Moon

Louis & Auguste Lumière, Georges Méliès


  • Country: France
  • Year: 1896/1902
  • Language: Silent
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  • Runtime: 15 min.

Cinema was "born" in 1895 when an audience paid to watch a screening in the Salon Indien at the Grand Café in Paris, and from very early on it began to take two divergent but fundamentally unified paths: that of reality as defined by Auguste and Louis Lumière, who diligently recorded the everyday phenomena of the world around them; and that of the unbridled imagination as exemplified by Georges Méliès, a magician who parlayed his stage acts into whimsical flights of fancy.

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screening times

    • Sunday October 17
    • 12:15:00 PM
    • Tiff Bell LightBox 3
    • (Free Event)

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official description

Cinema was "born" in 1895 when an audience paid to watch a screening in the Salon Indien at the Grand Café in Paris, and from very early on it began to take two divergent but fundamentally unified paths: that of reality as defined by Auguste and Louis Lumière, who diligently recorded the everyday phenomena of the world around them; and that of the unbridled imagination as exemplified by Georges Méliès, a magician who parlayed his stage acts into whimsical flights of fancy. While the respective voyages described by the short documentary Arrivee d'un Train a la Ciotat and the pioneering science fiction fantasy Le Voyage dans la lune are quite literally worlds apart, they are united by their palpable sense of elation, of excitement in the opportunities proffered by this new medium—and as the famous story has it, the sight of the Lumières' train coming towards the audience at the very first screening elicited at least as much terror and thrills as Méliès' lunar monsters.

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