Film and TV History in 1895
- Mar 22 Auguste & Louis Lumiere show their 1st movie to an invited audience
- Mar 30 British inventor Birt Acres films Oxford and Cambridge boat race
- May 20 1st commercial movie performance (153 Broadway, NYC)
- May 24 Henry Irving becomes the first actor to receive a knighthood
- Jul 11 French film pioneers Auguste and Louis Lumière show film for scientists
- Oct 2 1st cartoon comic strip is printed in a newspaper
- Dec 28 Filmmakers the Lumiere brothers, hold the first commercial film screening at Salon Indien du Grand Café, Paris
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