January 14 – Birt Acres demonstrates his film projector, the Kineopticon, the first in Britain, to the Royal Photographic Society at the Queen's Hall in London. This is the first film show to an audience in the U.K.[1]
July 26 – "Vitascope Hall" opens on Canal Street, New Orleans, the first business devoted exclusively to showing motion pictures at a fixed location [1]
September 28 – The Pathé Frères film company is founded.
In France, magician and filmmaker Georges Méliès begins experimenting with the new motion picture technology, developing early special effect techniques, including stop motion. Films that year included The Devil's Castle, A Nightmare, A Terrible Night.[4]
Contrary to myth, Arrival Of A Train At La Ciotat it was not shown at the Lumières' first public film screening on December 28, 1895, in Paris, France: the programme of ten films shown that day makes no mention of it. Its first public showing took place in January 1896.
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