moving image. 3D and other versions 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 1934 meeting of the French Academy of Science. Given the contradictory accounts that plague early cinema and pre-cinema accounts, it is 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 the 3D film never took off commercially as the conventional 2D version did, including such details would not make for a compelling myth. Additionally, Loiperdinger notes that "three versions of L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat are known to have existed". According to L’œuvre cinématographique des frères Lumière, the Lumière catalogue website, the version most found online is of an 1897 reshoot which prominently features women and children boarding the train. Current status The short has been featured in a number of film collections including Landmarks of Early Film volume 1. A screening of the film was depicted in the 2011 film Hugo, and in the intro sequence for the 2013 video game Civilization V: Brave New World. The scene of the train pulling in was placed at #100 on Channel 4's two-part documentary The 100 Greatest Scary Moments. References External links Original film (Lumière No. 653) on The Internet Archive L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat - Relief 3D a stereoscopic/3D film of the 1934 Lumière reshot. The Lumiere Institute, Lyon, France L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat: an interpretation at the Cinemaven blog. 1895 films French black-and-white films French short documentary films History of film French silent short films Documentary films about rail transport History of rail transport in France Films directed by Auguste and Louis Lumière French 3D films 1890s short documentary films Black-and-white documentary films Documentary films about France Articles containing video clips 3D short films One-shot films