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125 years ago today, on December 28, 1895, cinema was born. “The only art with a date of birth,” they say. Not the day that Louis Lumière proposed to his brother Auguste the Maltese cross that would be a key part of the device they were making, nor on February 13, when they patented it, but on December 28. Why? Because on that date the first public function with paid admission was held in a performance hall, the Salon Indien del Grand Café, a few meters from the Paris Opera. Without theaters, cinema (art, industry and business) would not have existed, at least as we knew it until 2020. And now?
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