22nd March 1895: The Lumière brothers stage their first film screening in Paris

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22nd March 2020

22nd March 1895: The Lumière brothers stage their first film screening in Paris

Put on for an audience of 200 invited attendees at the “Society for the Development of the National Industry”, the reaction to the moving black-and-white pictures caught the brothers by surprise.

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