Cinema
Photographs at sixteen a second, projected for a paying audience.
- When
- Known to
- ± 1 year
- Era
- Industrial, Holocene
The Lumière brothers give the first commercial projected screening in Paris in December 1895. Within twenty years cinema is a global industry with feature-length narrative, and within thirty it has sound. It is the first art form born as a mass-produced commodity, and the first medium in which a performance can be repeated identically anywhere in the world for a century.