1900 - A Praxinoscope used to provide musical backings to silent films via an internal music box. Used at the first real picture theatre at Marlborough Hall, Polytechnic Institute, Regent Street, London, UK for Auguste Lumieres & Louis Lumiere (sole manager Trewey). It consisted of a series of short films accompanied by a commentry from the first showing of the programme had been on February 20th 1896.

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