Le kinetoscope (644 et 646 Market street, [1^er] juin-30 [septembre] 1894)

Kinetoscope Parlor, 644 Market street, San Francisco, 1894.

Les frères Holland installent plusieurs kinetoscope parlor aux États-Unis. Après New York et Chicago, c'est au tour de San Francisco de découvrir la nouvelle invention de Thomas A. Edison. Il es probable que la location du local commence au début du mois de juin :

The Edison Kinetoscope.
A marveolus reproduction of movable objects. Nothing more vivid or more natural than these changing forms with their familiar tricks of gesture and action. Headers of the June number of the Century Magazine can have an opportunity to practically appreciate the Importance of the article on the Klnetoscope. Holland Bros have live of these machines bow on exhibition at 644 Market street.

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San Francisco Call, San Francisco, mardi 5 juin 1894, p. 10.

Sur la photographie qui a été conservée, on reconnaît Peter Bacigalupi (le premier). Quelques jours plus tard, un entrefilet indique que sous peu le kinetoscope parlor va présenter le combat entre Leonard et Cushing :

The Fight at Edison's Laboratory.
We have telegraphed for kinetograph pictures or the Leonard-Cushing fight at Edison's Laboratory, and will have them at the kinetoscope exhibition at 644 Market street next week. HOLLAND BROS.

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San Francisco Call, San Francisco, 17 juin 1894, p. 10.

Un autre article offre davantage d'informations au sujet du kinetoscope parlor :

Nearly everybody has heard of the inventor of the kinetoscope, but very few know that Edison's most wonderful invention Is now on exhibition tn San Francisco. Through the courtesy of the gentleman who is managing the exhibitions at 644 Market street I am able to state that the report circulated by a contemporary to the effect that the views are indecent is incorrect. In fact nothing could be more interesting than the moving photographs, as shown by these Instruments. If you wish to see yourself as a waltzer, vocalist, or as an orator, the machines will produce it true to life. In short it is difficult, almost impossible, to believe any true description of what can be seen in the kinetoscope by any persons who have not themselves looked into it. There are only twenty-five of these machines in existence, ten of which are in New York, ten In Chicago and five here. 

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San Francisco Call, San Francisco, 19 août 1894, p. 6.

Le propriétaire du local, Peter Bacigalupi, semble changer de local à partir de la fin du mois d'août, au 946 Market St où il continue de fonctionner à la fin du mois de septembre :

EDISON KINETOSCOPE.-On exhibition at 946 Market street (Baldwin Hotel).

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San Francisco Call, San Francisco, vendredi 28 septembre 1894, p. 6.

Après quatre mois d'exploitation, il va mettre en vente le kinetoscope parlor dans les derniers jours de septembre :

EDISON KINETOSCOPE AND PHONOGRAPH parlors for sale $3,000 will purchase an elegantly fitted arcade on the best street in Los Angeles, paying $25 per day. Apply to PETER BACIGALUPI, 946 Market street, Baldwin Buliding, San Francisco.

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The San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco, dimanche 30 septembre 1894, p. 14.

L'annonce est encore publiée -avec quelques variantes- en janvier 1895.

Le Kinetoscope (848 Market Street, 10 décembre 1894)

Un nouveau kinetoscope parlor est ouvert sur Market Street en décembre.

The San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco, lundi 10 décembre 1894, p. 5.

L'Animatoscope de la United States Animatoscope Company (The Chutes, 20 septembre-31 décembre 1896) → 1897

San Francisco. Haight Chutes (c. 1900)
Source: OpenSFHistory

Au Casino du parc d'attraction, "Haight Chutes", est annoncé dès le 20 septembre un spectacle avec l'artiste Antonio Pirri et des projections animées réalisées avec un Animatoscope.

The San Francisco Call and Post, San Francisco, dimanche 20 septembre 1896, p. 26.

Quelques vues sont annoncées dans la presse :

Even the cold weather does not keep the crowds away from the Chutes and last evening several hundred people enjoyed the many attractions on the grounds. "Arion," the high wire bicycle rider, Pirri, who coasts down the chutes, and the animatoscopoe continue to be the features. A view of Market street, near the Chronicle building with cable cars, wagons and pedestrians passing and repassing is the best thing yet shown by the animatoscope. The roller skating rink, under the management of C. C. Waite, who is so well known to all skaters, is very popular and is open every afternoon and evening.

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San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco, mardi 1^er décembre 1896, p. 10.

Les séances vont se poursuivre jusqu'à la fin de l'année:

At the Chutes.
At the Chutes the weather again has the upper hand, but on pleasant evenings Pirri, Richards, the fake airship and a score of attractions on the grounds keep the ball rolling in a most lively manner. The Animatoscope has a number of new scenes this week, carrier pigeons flying through the aire and an exhibition of the fire department of New York in active operation, being especially novel. For "The Examiner" afternoon and evening next Saturday many surprises are being prepared for the children.

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The San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco, mardi 15 décembre 1896, p. 5.

Quelques autres titres figurent dans un article postérieur :

The Animatoscope, with its lifelike scenes and pictures, is proving another great attraction at the Chutes. The scenes showing the fire department of New York in operation, a mother giving a baby his morning ablutions and the employes of a great thread factory going to work are especially preferred every evening. Korto, an equilibrist, walks down the chutes on a globe, an act that has never been given before.

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San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco, mardi 22 décembre 1896, p. 10.

  → 1897