February 13 – In France, the brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière patent the Cinematographe, a combination lightweight, hand-held movie camera and projector. The several short films they create at this time are considered to be pivotal in the history of film.[1]
December 28 – Auguste and Louis Lumière make what is probably the first commercial public screening of projected moving picture films to a paying audience, at the Salon Indien du Grand Café in the Boulevard des Capucines in Paris.[3] This date is sometimes considered the debut of the motion picture as an entertainment medium.
Gaumont founded by the engineer-turned-inventor, Léon Gaumont. Woodville Latham and his sons develop the Latham Loop – the concept of loose loops of film on either side of the intermittent movement to prevent stress from the jerky movement. This is debuted in the Eidoloscope, which is also the first widescreen format (1.85:1).
Henri Joly debuts his Joly-Normandin 60 mm format.
Films released in 1895
L'Arroseur Arrosé (1895) the earliest known instance of film comedy, as well as the first use of film to portray a fictional story.
^ abBurns, Paul (1999). "Chapter 15, 1895–1900". The History of the Discovery of Cinematography. Archived from the original on July 24, 2011. Retrieved August 14, 2011.
^Chardère, B.; Borgé, G.; Borgé, M. (1985). Les Lumière (in French). Paris: Bibliothèque des Arts. p. 71. ISBN 2-85047-068-6.
