Auguste and Louis Lumière
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.