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The first public screening of the Cinématographe — The paying session of 1895, at the Salon indien du Grand Café
A basement billiard room, rented at thirty francs a day from an owner who had turned down a share of the takings, ten views of less than a minute each and thirty-three spectators at one franc. Three weeks later the takings passed two thousand francs a day. (Editorial synthesis)
The first public screening of the Cinématographe took place on 28 December 1895. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
The first public screening of the Cinématographe took place in Paris. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
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