Category: Short
All Genres: Short, Documentary
Release Year: 1896
Country: France
Runtime: 1
Rating: 6.7 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Auguste LumièreLouis Lumière
Sound: Silent
Taglines:

  • M*G*Ms successor to "THE GREAT ZIEGFELD"
  • Screens most amazing SPECTACLE
  • 7 new COLE PORTER Song Hits


    • Writing by: Gavin Scott – writer

    Produced by: Ursula Adeane – associate producer
    Dale G. Bradley – producer
    Grant Bradley – producer
    Carlo Dusi – producer
    Jozsef Fityus – producer
    Mark Huljich – executive producer
    Steven Paul – executive producer
    Cassandra Sigsgaard – line producer: UK

    Cast: Beth Allen – Ellie
    Frank Brown – Terry
    John Callen – Conrad
    Jack Hurst – Tyler
    Joseph Moore – Brandon
    Adele Pascoe – Jessica
    Randy Quaid – Captain Flint
    Sasha Tilley – Miranda
    Nicko Vella – Charlie
    Devon Wood – Barbara

    Music: James Hall Bruce Lynch
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    Plot Outline: Another of the Lumiere Brothers one-shot films, this time showing a steam train arriving at a station…
    Plot: Another of the Lumiere Brothers one-shot films, this time showing a steam train arriving at a station and moving towards the camera It has passed into film folklore for the incident that occurred at its world premiere, when the audience, unfamiliar with the cinema thought the train was really coming right at them, and panicked!

    Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
    During the finishing credits, the film itself is suggested to be sold on a fleamarket as “re-usable” videotape (the film is shot on video, supposedly the handycam of one of the main characters).

    Goofs: We know about 5 goofs. Here comes one of them:
    Continuity: When Nora and Jenny visit the submarine and are talking to Gunny Sacks and Tex Baker, the same ship can be seen passing at least two times.

    Trivia: There are 3 entries in the trivia list – like these:

    • Though most of the Lumiиres films employed their own employees/family, this one was the arrival of a train full of strangers.
    • Generally considered to be the first motion picture in modern history (although more an experiment from the Lumiиre brothers to use their invention of film, it shows a train arriving at a passenger station… and thats it).
    • Film historians agree that the first public exhibition of motion pictures occurred on 28th December 1895 when Auguste Lumière and Louis Lumière (the Lumiиre Brothers) exhibited a selection of ten of their single-reel films to a paying audience at a Parisian cafй. Popular legend has it that, when this film was shown, the first-night audience fled the cafй in terror, fearing being run over by the “approaching” train. This legend has since been identified as promotional embellishment, though there is evidence to suggest that people were astounded at the capabilities of the Lumiиres cinйmatographe.