First Movie Panic!! Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (The Lumière Brothers, 1895)
The film is associated with an urban legend
well-known in the world of cinema. The story goes that when the film
was first shown, the audience was so overwhelmed by the moving image of
a life-sized train coming directly at them that people scr...eamed and ran
to the back of the room. Hellmuth Karasek in the German magazine Der Spiegel
wrote that the film "had a particularly lasting impact; yes, it caused
fear, terror, even panic." However, some have doubted the veracity of
this incident such as film scholar and historian Martin Loiperdinger in his essay, "Lumiere's Arrival of the Train: Cinema's Founding Myth".[2]
Whether or not it actually happened, the film undoubtedly astonished
people in the audience who were unaccustomed to the amazingly realistic
illusions created by moving pictures. The Lumière brothers clearly knew
that the effect would be dramatic if they placed the camera on the
platform very close to the arriving train.[citation needed] Another significant aspect of the film is that it illustrates the use of the long shot to establish the setting of the film, followed by a medium shot, and close-up.
(As the camera is static for the entire film, the effect of these
various "shots" is affected by the movement of the subject alone.) The
train arrives from a distant point and bears down on the viewer,
finally crossing the lower edge of the screen.
What most film histories leave out is that the Lumière Brothers were
trying to achieve a 3D image even prior to this first-ever public
exhibition of motion pictures. Louis Lumière eventually re-shot
L’Arrivée d’un Train with a stereoscopic film camera and exhibited it
(along with a series of other 3D shorts) at a 1935 meeting of the
French Academy of Science. Given the contradictory accounts that plague
early cinema and pre-cinema accounts, it's plausible that early cinema
historians conflated the audience reactions at these separate
screenings of L’Arrivée d’un Train. The intense audience reaction fits
better with the latter exhibition, when the train apparently was
actually coming out of the screen at the audience. But due to the fact
that 3D film never took off commercially as conventional 2D did,
including such details would not make for a compelling myth.[3]
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