28 December 1895 – Birth of commercial cinema 28 December 1895 Auguste and Louis Lumière presented the first public screening of their cinématographe films to a paying audience at Salon Indien du Grand Café in Paris. This history-making presentation featured ten short films. Each film, 17 meters long, run through a hand cranked projector, lasted approximately 50 seconds. (in order of presentation): La Sortie de lUsine Lumière à Lyon (literally, the exit from the Lumière factory in Lyon, or, under its more common English title, Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory), 46 seconds Le Jardinier (lArroseur Arrosé) (The Gardener, or The Sprinkler Sprinkled), 49 seconds Le Débarquement du Congrès de Photographie à Lyon (the disembarkment of the Congress of Photographers in Lyon), 48 seconds La Voltige (Horse Trick Riders), 46 seconds La Pêche aux poissons rouges (fishing for goldfish), 42 seconds Les Forgerons (Blacksmiths), 49 seconds Repas de bébé (Babys Breakfast (lit. babys meal)), 41 seconds Le Saut à la couverture (Jumping Onto the Blanket), 41 seconds La Places des Cordeliers à Lyon (Cordeliers Square in Lyon—a street scene), 44 seconds La Mer (Baignade en mer) (the sea [bathing in the sea]), 38 seconds Charles Francis Jenkins had used his Phantoscope to exhibit moving pictures to audiences in Atlanta in late September; and Max and Emil Skladanowsky had offered projected moving images using their Bioskope to a paying public one month earlier, on November 1, in Berlin; but the Lumière Brothers Grand Café screening is generally considered the true birth of the cinema as a commercial medium. youtube/watch?v=JGugm8Dzmuc
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