Filming The Folies-Bergere

Filming The Folies-BergereFor the first 24 years of its existence, France's famed Folies-Bergère enjoyed no other distinction than that of being the first music hall in Paris. Then one night in its 24th year – 1893 – the curtain went up on a naked woman, Paris was deliciously scandalized, and the Folies as we know it was born. In 1894 – one short year after that historic nude – the first flickery motion picture emerged from the laboratory of Thomas Alva Edison. Irrelevant? Completely. For it was...