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October 1894: The Parlours Come to Paris
Edison’s Kinetoscope received its first French showing in Paris in the summer of 1894, and the first Kinetoscope parlour was opened at 20 Boulevard Poissonniere in October. The parlour was owned by the brothers, Michel and Eugène Werner, and the films shown included The Cockfight, A Barroom Scene, Blacksmith’s Scene, The Barbershop, and a dance by Annabelle. The brothers, who had previously been the agents in France for Edison’s Phonograph, realized the potential of the Kinetoscope immediately, and set up a new company with their father, Alexis, and Adrienne Charbonnel, a financier, to exploit it It’s likely that Antoine Lumiere first saw the Kinetoscope at one of the Werners' Parlours, prompting him to set his sons to work on inventing a motion picture machine that would project film onto a screen. [ADD]
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