<P> Louis died on 6 June 1948 and Auguste on 10 April 1954 . They are buried in a family tomb in the New Guillotiere Cemetery in Lyon </P> <P> The Lumières held their first private screening of projected motion pictures in 1895 . This first screening on 22 March 1895 took place in Paris, at the "Society for the Development of the National Industry", in front of an audience of 200 people--among which Léon Gaumont, then director of the company the Comptoir géneral de la photographie . The main focus of this conference by Louis Lumière were the recent developments in the photograph industry, mainly the research on polychromy (colour photography). It was much to Lumière's surprise that the moving black - and - white images retained more attention than the coloured stills photographs . The American Woodville Latham had screened works of film 2 months later on 20 May 1895 . The first public screening of films at which admission was charged was a program by the Skladanowsky brothers that was held on 1 November 1895, in Berlin . </P> <P> The Lumières gave their first paid public screening on 28 December 1895, at Salon Indien du Grand Café in Paris . This history - making presentation featured 10 short films, including their first film, Sortie des Usines Lumière à Lyon (Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory). </P> <P> Each film is 17 meters long, which, when hand cranked through a projector, runs approximately 50 seconds . </P>

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