International Cinema Day is celebrated annually on December 28. It marks the anniversary of the first public commercial film screening by the Lumière brothers at the Grand Café in Paris in 1895.
On 28 December 1895, in the basement of the Grand Cafe in
Paris (Le Salon Indien du Grand Cafe) on Boulevard des Capucines, the first
public cinema show was held, where the brothers Auguste and Louis Lumiere
showed the viewers 10 short films, among which was the famous short documentary
The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station. During the screening of that film,
the audience jumped from their seats and ran in horror away from the hall,
fearing that the moving train on the screen would crush them.
Each film was then 17 meters long, which, when
hand cranked through a projector, ran approximately 50 seconds. From that
moment, regular film screenings began, accompanied by a piano or a saxophone.
The motion pictures were sometimes also accompanied by text below the images.
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