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Cinématographe Lumière
The first year of projected film, on a Paris wall.
What
Henri Brispot's 1895 poster advertising the Lumière brothers' Cinématographe in Paris.
Why
The Lumières first showed projected film to a paying Paris audience in December 1895; this sheet sold those screenings.
Notice
Brispot drew the audience as well as the screen.
“The first audience, drawn.”
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Size
$29.00
Provenance
- Film
- Cinématographe Lumière (1895)
- Country / studio
- France · Lumière
- Designer
- Henri Brispot
- Format
- Other
- Poster published
- French advertising poster, 1895
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (histoire-image.org)
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (poster published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the poster’s own publication year, never the film’s. Cleared by registry on 2026-07-18.
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