The following excerpt from a documentary on The Lumière Brothers discusses how they advanced Edison's Kinetoscope and Kinetograph with their invention of the Cinématographe, which was much more portable than Edison's bulky camera. They shot their first film Leaving the Factory in 1895 and projected the first film to a paying audience in a movie theatre, the basement room of the Grand Café in Paris, on December 28, 1895. This date is generally accepted as the birthday of the movies, even though others had projected films and charged for them in Europe and America earlier that year. However, this was the first in a movie theatre.
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