 Born in Algeria of Italian parents, Vincent Isola arrived in Paris in 1880, and with his brother undertook a variety of jobs before they first showed their conjuring act in public.They acquired the Théâtre des Capucines in 1892 and renamed it Théâtre Isola attracting large audiences.At the end of 1895, the Isola brothers discovered the invention of the Frères Lumière, cinematography, and devised a projector called "Isolatographe" for which the films were provided by another pair of brothers, Frères Emile and Charles Pathé.