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...most famous of the Lumiere films to be shown tomorrow is "Arrive d'un Train en Gare," which depicts the arrival of a train at the French town of Ciotat. When the film was first shown, members of the audience believed the train would actually hit them...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: Harvard Film Archives To Show World's Oldest Movies In Series | 9/29/1987 | See Source »

...most crowded August yet in the 100-year history of the French Riviera, a place which in Queen Victoria's day thought itself a winter resort. From Menton on the Italian border all along the beautifully indented 165-mile coast to La Ciotat outside Marseille, the sunlit Côte d'Azur was jammed with a half-million vacationing Frenchmen and hundreds of thousands of foreign tourists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: On the Beach | 9/7/1959 | See Source »

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