Good morning, Whitewater.
Today will be sunny with a high of thirty-three. Sunrise is 7:25 AM and sunset 4:28 PM for 9h 03m 45s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 47.5% of its visible disk illuminated.
Friday’s FW poll asked if readers thought that an Italian circus’s attempt to pass off Chow Chow dogs as pandas seemed convincing. Over 93% of readers said no, you must be kidding.
On this day in 1895, Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas and Louis Jean Lumière screen the first commercial films:
The Lumières held their first private screening of projected motion pictures in 1895.[7] Their first public screening of films at which admission was charged was held on December 28, 1895, at Salon Indien du Grand Café in Paris.[8] This history-making presentation featured ten short films, including their first film, Sortie des Usines Lumière à Lyon (Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory).[9] Each film is 17 meters long, which, when hand cranked through a projector, runs approximately 50 seconds.
The world’s first film poster, for 1895’s L’Arroseur arrosé
It is believed their first film was actually recorded that same year (1895)[10] with Léon Bouly’s cinématographe device, which was patented the previous year. The cinématographe — a three-in-one device that could record, develop, and project motion pictures — was further developed by the Lumières.The public debut at the Grand Café came a few months later and consisted of the following ten short films (in order of presentation):[11]
La Sortie de l’Usine Lumière à Lyon (literally, “the exit from the Lumière factory in Lyon”, or, under its more common English title, Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory), 46 seconds
Le Jardinier (l’Arroseur Arrosé) (“The Gardener”, or “The Sprinkler Sprinkled”), 49 seconds
Le Débarquement du Congrès de Photographie à Lyon (“the disembarkment of the Congress of Photographers in Lyon”), 48 seconds
La Voltige (“Horse Trick Riders”), 46 seconds
La Pêche aux poissons rouges (“fishing for goldfish”), 42 seconds
Les Forgerons (“Blacksmiths”), 49 seconds
Repas de bébé (“Baby’s Breakfast” (lit. “baby’s meal”)), 41 seconds
Le Saut à la couverture (“Jumping Onto the Blanket”), 41 seconds
La Places des Cordeliers à Lyon (“Cordeliers Square in Lyon”—a street scene), 44 seconds
La Mer (Baignade en mer) (“the sea [bathing in the sea]”), 38 seconds