Pathé Frères Compagnie

Pathé Frères Compagnie A firm established by Charles Pathé and Emile Pathé in Paris in 1896. It succeeded their earlier company, Les Phonographes Pathé (1894). The Pathé brothers had seen an Edison phonograph demonstration and had begun to put on exhibitions themselves. They went on to wholesale Edison machines, and to market their own cylinders for it. They also became interested in motion pictures. The Compagnie Général des Cinématographes, Phonographes et Pellicules was registered in…