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.
Provence'il on eriline koht filmiajaloos – üks esimesi filmilõike, "L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat" (rongi saabumine Ciotat' jaama), 50-sekundiline tummfilm, tehti Auguste ja Louis Lumière' poolt rannikulinna La Ciotat' rongijaamas.