Tuesday, December 28, 2010

First public film screening

Auguste and Louis Lumiere held the world's first public film screening on December 28, 1895. Their showing of short films in the basement lounge of the Grand Cafe in Paris lasted twenty minutes. The Lumiere Brothers believed their invention was without a future as they thought that people would be bored by images that they could just as easily see by walking out into the street.
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