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Events on Saturday 28 December 1895 1
1895Lumiere brothers' first public film screeningThe Cinematographe debuts at the Grand Cafe in ParisOn 28 December 1895 Auguste and Louis Lumiere held the first paying public screening of projected motion pictures, at the Salon Indien du Grand Cafe in Paris. The program of short films, including Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory, is widely regarded as the birth of cinema as a public medium. The event launched a global entertainment industry.