Happy 125th birthday to cinema! | Brad Rushing

Happy 125th Birthday to Cinema! "December 28, 1895, marks a historic day in the history of the cinema, but you won't find the movies that premiered on this day among the Christmas schedules or in anyone's Top 10 list. At the Salon Indien of the Grand Café in Paris, cinematography pioneers the Lumière Brothers effectively opened the first cinema box office, charging the public to see 10 short films they had filmed earlier that year projected onto a big screen." Here is the 2-minute "thrilling epic" which opened the 10-short film program and launched an industry: "Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory" (1895)