L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat

by Florian Dupas and Victor Dulon (dit Vidu)

2018

L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat

by Florian Dupas and Victor Dulon (dit Vidu)

2018

Web creation

Innovative book

Comic books

History and heritage

Web creation

Innovative book

Comic books

History and heritage

This interactive little story is a revisit of a classic in the silent film genre, that explores the specific effects of digital-only comics that cannot be conveyed onto the paper format

Computer, Smartphone, Tablet

Suitable for all audiences

Without dialogue

Update : 30/10/2023

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This unique digital experience is a reconstitution of an 1896 cinema which allows the viewer to be part of a famous event; the very first screening of the Lumière Brothers’ short film L’arrivée d’un train en gare de la Ciotat (Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat). The film is renowned for causing a lot of turmoil amongst the viewers, who ran away from the screening, thinking a train was actually going to plough into them. You can scroll to control the train speed, but the animations have special surprise effects, using parallax and fade-out techniques. The comical side of this historical anecdote is amplified as the train actually does get out of the frame... And of the screen!