Auguste and Louis Lumière patent the cinematograph and give the first public film screening on December 28, 1895 at the Salon Indien du Grand Café, Paris. Unlike the Dickson-Edison kinetoscope (individual viewing), the cinematograph projected onto a screen for multiple simultaneous viewers. The first session included La Sortie de l'Usine Lumière à Lyon and L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat, marking the birth of cinema as public spectacle.