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The film considered the first motion picture is La Sortie des ouvriers de l’usine Lumière (1895), which translates to "Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory." This film was created by the Lumière brothers, Auguste and Louis, who also invented the Cinematographe, a device that served as both a camera and a projector. The first public demonstration of the Cinematographe, featuring this film, took place on December 28, 1895, in Paris, marking the beginning of cinema history. Unlike earlier devices like Edison's Kinetoscope, which allowed only one viewer at a time, the Cinematographe enabled projection for an audience.123