Editing Provence (section)

=== Cinema ===
Provence has a special place in the history of the motion picture – one of the first projected motion pictures, ''[[L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat]]'' (''The Arrival of a Train into La Ciotat Station''), a fifty-second silent film, was made by [[Auguste and Louis Lumière]] at the train station of the coastal town of [[La Ciotat]]. It was shown to an audience in Paris on 28 December 1895, causing a sensation.<ref>*<!--Do not remove this link citing "no license stated", this film (made in 1896) is in the public domain-->[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dgLEDdFddk Complete film] on YouTube
* [http://www.institut-lumiere.org/ The Lumiere Institute, Lyon, France]</ref>

Before its commercial premiere in Paris, the film was shown to invited audiences in several French cities, including La Ciotat. It was shown at the Eden Theater in September 1895, making that theatre one of the first motion picture theatres, and the only of the first theatres still showing movies in 2009.<ref>"...Onze autres projections en France (Paris, Lyon, La Ciotat, Grenoble) et en Belgique (Bruxelles, Louvain) auront lieu avec un programme de films plus étoffé durant l'année 1895, avant la première commerciale du 28 décembre, remportant à chaque fois le même succès."  From the site of the Institut Lumiere in Lyon. see [http://www.institut-lumiere.org/ Site of the Institut Lumiere]</ref>

Three other of the earliest Lumiere films,  ''[[Partie de cartes]]'',  ''[[l'Arroseur arrosé]]'' (the first known filmed comedy), and ''[[Repas de bébé]]'', were also filmed in La Ciotat in 1895, at the Villa du Clos des Plages, the summer residence of the Lumière Brothers.