If you take an introductory class on the history of filmmaking (or do a quick web search, for that matter), the Lumiére brothers will be inescapable ... short films for a small paying audience in 1895 ...

The prehistory of the cinema as we know it today, with its great inventors: Marey, Muybridge, Reynaud, Edison, the brothers Lumière and their great inventions: the kinetoscope, the praxinoscope, the ...

On this day in 1895, the world's first commercial movie screening takes place at the Grand Cafe in Paris. The film was made by Louis and Auguste Lumiere, two French brothers who developed a ...

Also on this date: In 1895, the Lumiere brothers, Auguste and Louis, held the first public showing of their films in Paris. In 1908, a major earthquake followed by a tsunami devastated the Italian ...