Thomas Edison's failure to extend his patent…

Thomas Edison's failure to extend his patent rights to England and Europe allows French inventors, filmmakers and brothers Louis and Auguste Lumiere to manufacture the Cinematographe, a more portable camera that also functions as a printer and projector.

On December 28, 1895, the Lumieres project a program of ten of their fifteen- to-sixty-second motion pictures to a paying audience in the basement of a Paris cafe.