Fri Dec 28, 2007 5:58PM5 comments ›
Fri Dec 28, 2007 — by Glenn Hauman
Happy 112nd birthday to the movies!
On this day in 1895, the Lumiere Brothers opened the world's first movie theater at Paris. Their opening night feature is a collection of 46-second shorts, including the riveting verite masterpiece 'Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory.'
Gene Shalit raves, calling it one of the best films of the year.
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Comments (5)
mike weber (10:00 PM on Fri Dec 28, 2007)
112th, i believe
Jeffrey Frawley (10:29 PM on Fri Dec 28, 2007)
It has been 112 years since Louis Lumiere's invention of the modern motion picture projector, and 140 since William Lincoln patented the zoopraxiscope, which displayed animated film to one viewer at a time. In 1891 (116 years ago) Thomas Edison demonstrated the kinetoscope, which showed film to one viewer at a time, and in 1896 the vitascope, the first commercially successful projector in the United States.
Perhaps we could say that the Lumiere brothers introduced the first commercial movie theaters 112 years ago.
Glenn Hauman (8:12 AM on Sat Dec 29, 2007)
You're both right, it was a typo on my end that propagated. I'll fix it.
Anonymous (2:10 AM on Sat Dec 29, 2007)
It was in 1895, that the first movie screening took place. So thats 112 years ago!
And don't forget that also on the 28th the first public street cars were used in SanFran and thanks to that day Seattle-lites can now ride the S.L.U.T.
mike weber (9:32 PM on Sat Dec 29, 2007)
In fact, when the San Francisco cable cars debuted in 1873, New York had had horse-drawn street cars since 1832, and New Orleans since 1835.
The first electric street Railway opened in 1888, in Richmond.