Today marks the 125th anniversary of the world's first commercial film screening! #OnThisDay on 28th December 1895 the Grand Café in Paris hosted the paid screening of films made by brothers Louis and Auguste Lumiere. Relive the history, here’s one of the films: “La Sortie de l'usine Lumière à Lyon” (Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory). | National Film Archive of India

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The Silent Films Era The term silent film is a retronym—a term created to retroactively distinguish something from later developments. Early sound films, starting with The Jazz Singer in 1927, were variously referred to as the "talkies", "sound films", or "talking pictures". The idea of combining motion pictures with recorded sound is older than film (it was suggested almost immediately after Edison introduced the phonograph in 1877), and some early experiments had the projectionist manually adj