While in London, Pathé saw the Edison Kinetoscope and decided to expand the Pathé company's business to distributing cinema projection equipment, and with the acquisition of Eastman Kodak patent rights in Europe, a licence for film stock in theatres throughout France. Pathé films were rented out, for a maximum of four months, a more lucrative business than selling the product. A modest first factory had been installed in 1896 at Vincennes. The first films of the Société Pathé Frères such as "Le Passage à niveau à Joinville le Pont" and "L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de Bel-Air" were produced, under Pathé's guidance. For several years, however, the success of the phonograph business underwrote the success of the cinema company.