Arrival of a Train at Perrache

Name: Arrival of a Train at Perrache
Director: Louis Lumière
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1896
Duration: 43 s

1896 Documentary 43 seconds Directed by Louis Lumière

About Arrival of a Train at Perrache

A train comes into Perrache station in Lyon. Passengers get down. On the platform a baggage cart bumps a man.

Cast & crew

Louis Lumière Director

More about Arrival of a Train at Perrache

Louis Lumière made this view in 1896. It is number 127 in the Lumière catalogue, about 17 meters, and 43 seconds. Silent Era dates a release to 23 March 1896.

Themes

A train entering a city station
The platform during a stop
Perrache
Lyon
train
Lumière
platform

Background

One of the 1896 Lumière station views, shot at Lyon's Perrache terminal rather than at the seaside station of La Ciotat.

Preservation

A print survives. A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.

Notes

It is not the better-known Lumière view of a train at La Ciotat.
Wikidata also lists the director as anonymous.
A Montreal paper in June 1896 described a Perrache arrival among the first Lumière pictures shown there.