The Lumière Brothers, Méliès, and the Irony of History The first film ever projected to a paying audience, Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory, was shown on December 28, 1895, at the Salon Indien in Paris (see here). A brief 46-second short that would later become, in hindsight, the symbol of the birth of cinema. In […]

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