Eugene working on talking pictures at his Melbourne Square garden in Brixton 1911

Eugene was born January 17th 1857 in Montmartre France. He was an inventor of some renown, and before leaving France for a career in America he worked on inventing an early petrol engine. After making a working model of the combustion engine, considered to be noisy, with petrol being highly inflammable and much too dangerous, he turned his skills to film making. In 1900 he came to England and lived in Brixton, South London. He worked on inventing the first talking pictures, or talkies as they would become later known. All this 27 years before the first talking motion picture ‘The Jazz Singer’ was released. Affectionately known as the ‘Father of sound’ and the first person to record sound. He died June 27 1935 at Montclair, New Jersey. Leaving a wife Melanie, and their son, Emile, and two stepsons.

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