Overview
- The first public, paid film show took place on 28 December 1895 at the Salon Indien of the Grand Café in Paris, where ten shorts including Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory were screened for one franc over about 25 minutes.
- Coverage revisits the famous panic tale tied to Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat, noting the legend’s persistence and that the film was not part of the 28 December program.
- Il Fatto Quotidiano reports that the brothers’ father, Antoine Lumière, drove the commercial launch and attended the premiere, as the Lumières went on to make over 140 films before focusing on color photography.
- Historical context underscores a rapid, international takeoff with contemporaries such as Méliès, Gaumont, Pathé, and early U.S. systems competing to define the new medium.
- Anniversary features connect origins to today’s landscape, with cultural roundups of iconic cars on screen and analyses of streaming pressures and AI tools like Google’s Veo 3, as some reports speculate about further industry consolidation.