"Our invention can be exploited for a certain time as a
scientific curiosity, but apart from that, it has no commercial future
whatsoever."- Auguste Lumière, with his brother
Louis, organized the first public performance of motion pictures in
December 1895
France was 2nd to show a feature film over an hour in length in
1909. The first was in Australia in 1906 by a licensee of the Lumiere
Bros.