Arrival of a Train (Joinville Station)
About Arrival of a Train (Joinville Station)
A train arrives at Joinville station. Georges Méliès filmed the actuality in 1896 at Joinville-le-Pont and released it through Star Film as catalogue number 35. The camera original is lost. The picture now in circulation is a digital reconstruction from a flipbook Léon Beaulieu made around the same time.
Cast & crew
More about Arrival of a Train (Joinville Station)
Méliès directed the one-minute view. The French title is Arrivée d'un train (gare de Joinville). Star Film numbered it 35.
Themes
Background
An 1896 Star Film actuality, made the year after the Lumière train picture and set at a different station.
Making
Méliès shot the arrival at Joinville as a straight actuality, not as one of his trick films.
Preservation
The 1896 negative is lost. A digital reconstruction was made from Léon Beaulieu's contemporary flipbook. That reconstruction is the file on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- It is one of several early films of a train arriving at a station.
- Beaulieu's flipbook is the source of the digital stand-in.
- The Wikimedia Commons file carries the French title.
Scenes
- The train comes into Joinville station.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Arrivée d'un train en gare de Joinville (1896).webm)
