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Communication · 1895

Cinema

The Lumiere brothers project moving pictures to a paying Paris audience.

After Edison's peephole Kinetoscope, Auguste and Louis Lumiere's Cinematographe, a camera, printer and projector in one, gave the first commercial public screening on 28 December 1895. Film became the dominant mass entertainment and a new art form of the 20th century.

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