Wow look at their clothes, so cool. The train looks awesome too

Is it important in cinema history? Sure. It is fun to watch? Not particularly, but it's only a minute long.

An assortment of interesting hats.

A beautiful bit of film history.

The story of the first crowds who watched it ducking and scrambling to get out of the way of the train is certainly funny, another historic short from the Lumière brothers.

What I liked most was the music - oh, and that woman and her baby running (0:34 - 0:37).

If any film manages to beautifully succeed in capturing the feeling of boarding or departing a train, this film is it.

Train comin' round the beeeend...

Even thinking this could be a simple Lumiere short, important historically but with no artistic or entertaining value, one of those I would just put a simple medium 50 to show I watched it, the case is different now. All the myth about people scared for the arrival train is good enough to make it a bit different for any other Lumiere short. People was no delighted or surprised, they were excited and frightened, a new undiscovered power of the invention.

My hope is to one day be able to sit through this without crying out in terror.

That there's a train.

How do you rate something like this? Its impossible really. It's a train, a cinematically important train, but still just a train! There's not much else to say!

I'd probably shit my pants if I saw this back in 1895.

Indeed.

A train.

Imagine if the people who saw this and shat themselves saw a 3D movie. I'd hate to have to clean that mess up.

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!! ooh that was close, i thought it was going to hit me.

Historically important. For some reason I really enjoyed seeing the clothes people were wearing.. Today this is only useful for understanding the history of film though, and doesn't really have entertainment value. It's hard to rate because of this, so the score is pretty arbitrary.

Interesting as a historical landmark, but not really all that fun to watch

Hauntingly realistic. I swear that train almost ran me over!

Best... arriving... french... train... ever!

A train that's all shiny and women in their best Sunday attire, and it's probably TUESDAY! We've lost all class. :(

Nothing more than an establishing shot nowadays, but historically significant. At the very least it serves as an artifact, showcasing the fashions of the time.

Would have been fabolous if the cameraman took the risk to stay closer to the track and lower the tripod.

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Oh, to be a fly on the wall of that theatre when this film premiered. To see everybody run out screaming when the train rolled in would have been awesome!

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Sometimes I like to think about the honest, provincial folks back in 1895 who, unfamiliar with film as a medium, saw an enormous train bearing down on them and with eyes as wide as saucers and mouths shaped like tiny hamburgers, dove screaming into the aisles to avoid meeting their demise. And then I laugh a deep, hearty, stupid laugh, wipe the drool from my chin, and feel like an asshole.

Welcome my son, welcome to the cinema :)

That story about the world premiere is interesting, and this deserves credit for it's infuence. It's still just a shot of a train arriving at a train station and even though I watched it 4 times I didn't see anything special about the shot.

i started to watch this but then ran off screaming

OH MY GOD IT'S COMING RIGHT AT US

People were horrified seeing this, thinking it would be real... unimaginable today.

Interesting historically.

great soundtrack!