On this day in 1895, the world’s first commercial movie screening takes place at the Grand Cafe in Paris.
The film was made by Louis and Auguste Lumiere, two French brothers who developed a camera projector called the Cinematographe.
Their screening of a single film on 22 March 1895 for around 200 members of the "Society for the Development of the National Industry" in Paris was probably the first presentation of projected film.
Their first commercial public screening on 28 December 1895 for around 40 paying visitors and invited relations has traditionally been regarded as the birth of cinema
The techniques and business models of earlier filmmakers proved less viable than the breakthrough presentations of the Lumières.
The Lumière brothers were born in Besançon, France, to Charles-Antoine Lumière (1840–1911) and Jeanne Joséphine Costille Lumière, who were married in 1861 and moved to Besançon, setting up a small photographic portrait studio where Auguste and Louis were born.
They moved to Lyon in 1870, where their son Edouard and three daughters were born. Auguste and Louis attended La Martiniere, the largest technical school in Lyon.
Their father, Charles-Antoine set up a small factory producing photographic plates, but even with Louis and a young sister working from 5 a.m. to 11 p.m., it teetered on the verge of bankruptcy, and by 1882 it looked as if they would fail.
When Auguste returned from military service, the boys designed the machines necessary to automate their father's plate production and devised a very successful new photo plate, 'etiquettes bleue', and by 1884 the factory employed a dozen workers
They patented several significant processes leading up to their film camera, most notably film perforations (initially implemented by Emile Reynaud), as a means of advancing the film through the camera and projector.
The original cinématographe had been patented by Léon Guillaume Bouly on 12 February 1892. The cinématographe — a three-in-one device that could record, develop, and project motion pictures — was further developed by the Lumières.
The brothers patented their own version on 13 February 1895.
The Lumière brothers saw film as a novelty and had withdrawn from the film business by 1905.
They went on to develop the first practical photographic color process, the Lumière Autochrome.
Louis died on 6 June 1948, and Auguste on 10 April 1954. They are buried in a family tomb in the New Guillotière Cemetery in Lyon.
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December 28, 1895
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