In only 12 months after the
first real commercial cinema, nearly all the major countries
in the world had witnessed their first demonstration.
Here's a breakdown of the
amazing spread. These are public showings before a PAYING audience
unless marked. We've tried to put who made the presentation:
1895
March 22 - France - NON PAYING
Lumiere Bros. before the Societe d'Encouragement
pour l'Industrie Nationale at 44 rue de Rennes, Paris
May 20 - United States
Major Woodville Latham of the Lamda Co. presented a 4 minute
boxing match at 153 Broadway, New York. It was on a crude projector
called the Eidoloscope created by former Edison employee Eugene
Lauste.
November 1 - Germany
Max and Emil Skladanowski presented 8 short films at Berlin
Wintergarten.
1896
January - Egypt
Lumiere program presented by Brunio (Lumiere photographer) while
he was there shooting film for the Lumiere Bros.
February 20 - UK
Lumiere program presented by F. Trewey at Regent Street Polytechnic
in London.
February (late) - Italy
Lumiere program presented by Vittorio Calcina at the Ospedale
di Carita in Turin.
March 1 - Belgium
Lumiere program at 7 de la Galerie du Roi in Brussels.
March 19 - Austria
Lumiere program presented by E. J. Dupont at the Graphic Arts
Teaching & Research Centre in Vienna
April 6 - Norway
Skladanowski programme presented at the Circus Variete in Olso
April 20 - Ireland
program presented at the Star of Erin Variety Theatre in Dublin.
May 4 - Russia
Lumiere program presented by Francis Doublier at Aquarium Theatre
in St. Petersburg.
May 9 - South Africa
R. W. Paul's program presented at the Empire Theatre of Varieties
in Johannesburg.
May 10 - Hungary
Lumiere program presented Royal Hotel in Budapest.
May 15 - Spain
Lumiere program presented by M. Promio at 34 Cartera de San
Jeronimo in Madrid
May 27 - Romania
Lumiere program presented at Salon l'Independenta Romana in
Bucharest
June 7 - Denmark
Lumiere program presented by Vilhelm Pacht in Raadhuspladsen
in Copenhagen.
June 7 - Yugoslavia
Lumiere program presented at Kod Zlatnog Krsta Cafe in Belgrade
June 9 - Netherlands
Lumiere program presented at the Kurhaus in Scheveningen
June 18 - Portugal
Lumiere program presented by Erwin Rousby at Real Coliseu, Rua
da Palma in Lisbon.
June 28 - Finland
Lumiere program presented at the Societetshuset in Helsinki.
June 28 - Sweden
Lumiere program presented by C. V. Roikjer at the Industrial
Exhibition in Malmo.
July 7 - India
Lumiere program presented at the Watson' Hotel in Bombay
July 15 - Czechoslovakia
Lumiere program presented at the Lazensky dum in Karoly Vary.
July 21 - Canada
Edison Vitascope program presented at West End Park in Ottawa.
July 28 - Argentina
Lumiere program presented by Francisco Pastos and Eustaquio
Pellier at Colon Theatre in Buenos Aires.
July (late) - Brazil
Omniographo program presented at 57 Rua do Ouvidor in Rio de
Janiero.
August 11 - China
Unknown program presented at variety show at Hsu Gardens in
Shanghai.
August 15 - Mexico
Lumiere program presented by Salvador Toscano Barragan at 17
Calle de Jesus in Mexico City.
August 22 - Australia
R. W. Paul program presented by Carl Hertz at Melbourne Opera
House in Melbourne.
October 13 - New Zealand
R. W. Paul program presented by Prof. Hausmann and Prof. Gow
at Auckland Opera House in Auckland.
October (late) - Poland
Edison program presented at Lvov.
1897
January 24 - Cuba
Lumiere program presented by Gabriel Veyre at Teatro Tacon in
Havana.
January 28 - Venezuela
Edison program presented by Manuel Trujillo at Teatro Baralt
in Maracaibo.
June - Japan
Lumiere presented by Katsutaro Inahata at Osaka.
December 25 - Uruguay
Lumiere program presented at Montevideo
Tunisia
undated program of Lumiere presentation by Albert Samama on
rue Es-Sadika in Tunis.
1898
Spring - Greece
Lumiere program presented at Place Kolokotronis in Athens.
Bulgaria
undated program presented by Frencz Echer in Sofia.
1899
Turkey
undated program presented at the Electric Circus in Constantinople.
1900
November 30 - Indonesia
Nederlandsche Bioscope Maatschappij presented at Batavia.
Korea
undated free film show sponsored by Anglo-American Tobacco Co.
of Shanghai. Admission in exchange for cigarette coupons.
Senegal
undated Lumiere program presented at Dakar
