1/3/1896: Belgium's First Screening

Cinema first arrived in Belgium on the 1^st March 1896, when a film show including the Lumiere’s La Sortie des Usines Lumiere, Arrivee d’un Train en Gare, and l’Arroseur Arrose was presented at 7 Galerie du Roi in Brussels.   A commemorative plaque was placed on the spot exactly 60 years later, on the 1^st March 1956. [ADD]

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