page_title: Arrival of a Train at Vincennes Station
section_title: Possible survival
hierarchical_section_title: Arrival of a Train at Vincennes Station / Possible survival
caption_attribution_description: English: Page from the flipbook hypothesized to be a surviving copy of Georges Méliès's film Arrival of a Train at Vincennes Station. The complete film is reconstructed on the source webpage.
context_page_description: Arrival of a Train at Vincennes Station is a 1896 French silent actuality film directed by Georges Méliès. It was released by Méliès's company Star Film and is numbered 7 in its catalogues. The film is currently presumed lost.
context_section_description: Although the film is considered a lost film, South American animator Bernhard Richter  suggested that a flipbook published around the turn of the century by Léon Beaulieu may be a surviving print of the film, based on research done with his daughter Sara Richter in 2013. Beaulieu was a manufacturer of  flipbooks, or "folioscopes," based on movies produced between 1895 and 1898.
  The suggested identification is based on the type of train depicted in the flipbook, but Sara Richter noted in a statement to the magazine Variety that no conclusive evidence to link the flipbook to Méliès has yet been found. The UCLA archivist Jan-Christopher Horak has posited that, while the flipbook may well be a Méliès print, it might also be a Lumière Brothers film. The preservationist Serge Bromberg similarly commented on the infeasibility of identifying the flipbook with certainty as a Méliès film, rather than one by other early filmmakers, without further evidence. Georges Méliès's great-great-granddaughter Pauline Méliès noted in an online statement that the flipbook may possibly derive from Méliès, but, based on scrutiny of the inscriptions on the train, suggested that it may be a slightly later Méliès film, Arrival of a Train (Joinville Station).
  The Richters have announced that they hope to gather more evidence by crowdsourcing the research project.
caption: A page from the Beaulieu flipbook
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