![The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (1896) The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (1896)](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w185/m5HSlaNCzwV95rAriDmT19el5h1.jpg)
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Overview
The first woman to appear in front of an Edison motion picture camera and possibly the first woman to appear in a motion picture within the United States. In the film, Carmencita is recorded going through a routine she had been performing at Koster & Bial's in New York since February 1890.