In 1895, the Lumiere Brothers filmed 'The Arrival of a Train' in the train station of the French village of La Ciotat. In the 45 second clip, a train arrives at a station in the town, and people start to get on and off it. This type of slice of life snippet is called an actuality (or Actualité), and was a very popular form of recording when people were capturing things with the first video cameras. The Lumiere brothers captured…
