December 28 is the International Cinema Day.

Every year on December 28 the world celebrates the International Cinema Day. 

On this day in 1895, in the basement of the Grand Cafe in Paris (Le Salon Indien du Grand Cafe) on Boulevard des Capucines, the first public cinema show was held, where the brothers Auguste and Louis Lumiere showed the viewers 10 short films, among which was the famous short documentary The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station. During the screening of that film, the audience jumped from their seats and ran in horror away from the hall, fearing that the moving train on the screen would crush them. 

Each film was then 17 meters long, which, when hand cranked through a projector, ran approximately 50 seconds. From that moment, regular film screenings began, accompanied by a piano or a saxophone. The motion pictures were sometimes also accompanied by text below the images.