The world's first DJ booth was majestically ridiculous  Decades
before hip-hop deejays began mixing records in the South Bronx,
French engineer Leon Gaumont was crossfading records using his
fantastically flamboyant Chronophone. If you ever needed to rock
a party Fantômas-style while pouring a flagon of champagne out
for poor dead Jules Verne, this was your rig. But in all
seriousness, this set-up was suited for the cinema. As
Auxetophone explains of this device's history:  The world's
first DJ booth was majestically ridiculousIn 1910 Gaumont
demonstrated his Chronophone system, which synchronised sound
and film, at the Gaumont Palace in Paris. The compressed-air
amplifier, which he called the Eglephone, was just a part of the
whole system. The volume was enough for an audience of 4000.
The world's first DJ booth was majestically ridiculousInitially
the longest moving picture that could be made with synchronised
sound was only 200ft, due to the limited playing time of the
Gramophone record. (Projection was a