On This Day March 19

At age 17, French inventor Louis Lumière invented a new process for film development using a dry plate Thirteen years later, he and his brother August patented their combination movie camera and projector, the Cinématographe. They recorded their first footage using their newly patented cinematograph on March 19, 1895. It showed mainly female workers leaving the Lumière factory on the outskirts of Lyon, France, as if they had just finished a day's work.

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