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The first paid film screening was in Paris in 1895
The Lumière brothers showed short films to a paying audience on 28 December
On 28 December 1895 Auguste and Louis Lumière screened ten short films to a paying audience in the basement of the Grand Café in Paris. The films were each under a minute long. The date is often used as the birthday of cinema as a public entertainment.
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