The history of cinema took off when the Lumiere Brothers held the first paid-for screening on 28th December 1895, of their 10 short films, in Paris. In the 1890s, films were seen mostly via temporary storefront spaces.
On November 21st, 1895, the Skladanowsky brothers unveiled their ‘Bioskop’ at the Winter-garten Hall in Berlin. That was the first official film screening in the Europe. Thus movie theatres became popular entertainment venues. In October 1896, the first movie was shown in Australia in the Athenaeum Hall in Melbourne. In 1897, a cinema building was built in Paris, solely for the purpose of showing films. The year 1900 marks the emergence of the first motion pictures that can be considered as films. Until 1927, it was the silent film era as motion pictures were produced without sound. The first films to consist of more than one shot appeared in the 19th century.
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