The First Movie at the Grand Café
“A basement room of the Grand Café, Paris, December 28, 1895. A small audience watches the Lumière brothers project 'Workers Leaving the Factory' on a screen. Foreground shows a top-hatted gentleman pointing in astonishment at a silvered sheet; midground reveals the wooden Cinématographe whirring beside Auguste Lumière; gaslight glints on velvet curtains and bottles of absinthe at café tables.”
