MiraMira Tours

Regent Street Cinema

cultural
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You are approaching the birthplace of British cinema. On February 21, 1896, this site hosted the first public exhibition of moving pictures to a paying audience in the United Kingdom. The Lumière brothers brought their revolutionary Cinématographe machine here, permanently changing the course of British entertainment history.

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