The Lumieres shot and produced "L'Arrivee d'un Train a La Ciotat", apparently for a convention of photography enthusiasts meeting there... and followed it up with this, again showing the train pulling into the station and stopping, followed by the departing passengers.
Was this some sort of variety film for the local audience, like the work that Mitchell and Kenyon would produce for Birmingham in the UK a decade later? Perhaps. Even today, when I see shots of my block in movies and on television, it gives me a peculiar, proprietary feeling.
Like "Ciotat" this is well composed, with plenty of movement, a good motion picture in every sense in the word.