First commercial exhibition of a projected motion picture (film)
- Who
- 10 short films by the Lumiere Brothers
- What
- First
- Where
- France (Paris,Salon Indien, Gran Cafe,)
- When
- 1895
Often hailed as the ‘founding fathers of modern film’, the Lumiere Brothers, Louis and Auguste, can take credit for the first commercial exhibition of a projected motion picture to a paying public in 1895, in the world's first movie theatre - the Salon Indien, at the Grand Cafe on Paris' Boulevard des Capucines. The 20-minute program included ten short films with twenty showings a day.