Il Cinema Ritrovato wrote:
Alfred Machin started at Pathé in 1908, in the department called “Service de Voyage”. Its staff had their travel expenses covered by the company and were paid per film accepted (“bande accepté”) so it was a kind of freelancing. The frequency of hunting films, especially from distant countries, is some indication of the popularity of this genre a hundred years ago. According to the Pathé catalogue, Machin was also responsible for Chasse à L’hippopotame, Chasse à l’aigrette, Chasse à la giraffe, Chasse au marabout, Chasse aux singes, and Chasse aux éléphants.

Warning: For the squeamish etc., on top of the panther being killed and posed with, it is skinned at the end.

Chasse.a.la.panthere.1909.WEB.480p.mkv

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Wikipedia wrote:
The Strike (French: La Grève) is a 1904 French silent short film directed by Ferdinand Zecca and distributed in France by Pathé Frères. The film depicts a strike in a factory violently repressed by the Gendarmerie.

According to Richard Abel, The Strike was one of the few films shown in America at the time representing labor unrest. He notes that when it was screened in December 1904, in Boston, “the film was watched with deep interest, ending in applause”. He also mentions that the film received good notices in the 1904 reports of the Keith movie theatre managers of Cleveland and New York.

Richard Abel mentions The Strike as an early example of a transformation of film discourse, where frame changes are used within a continuous flow of action, “not only to reconstruct a synthetic diegetic space for that action, but also to elicit, suspend and fulfill narrative expectation”. He stresses in particular how it creates an unusually “deep space” playing area and how in scene 2 the camera pans to follow the crowd “perhaps in an attempt to reproduce the verisimilitude of an actualité”.

La.greve.1904.WEB.1080p.mkv

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imdb:
Deep into a vast cavern of the pitch-black inferno, a couple of professional dancers demonstrate the cakewalk that is currently so much in vogue, and now, everyone in the once-gloomy underworld is doing the crazy dance. Who is the best?

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A photographer tries to manipulate a woman into a sexy photo shoot. When she refuses, he finds a more obliging model and takes a series of nude photos. When men line up to buy them, a woman objects.

Johann Schwarzer - 1910 - Beim Fotografen [DVD-PAL].mkv

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The artist studio is decorated with a rug, a chaise longue, a small table, a plinth, a couple of copies of classic sculptures, a vase with flowers, a few prints on the walls, and on the wood paneled lower half of the wall, an 8-pointed star [Saturn-Film’s logo]. The artist is wearing a white shift over his grey trousers, shirt and necktie, and he is wearing black shoes. With hammer and chisel, he applies the last touches on his last piece of sculpture – the three graces, standing nude on a rectangular podium covered with a white bed-shit. He steps back, contemplates his work, and rejoices on the beauty he has achieved. He goes out momentarily, and brings a bottle of champagne and a glass; before drinking, he makes a toast to his finished statue. He drinks, smokes a cigarette, and contemplates his work – until he falls asleep on the chaise longue. Obly then do the three graces stir, and tip-toe around their creator. One even dares to approach her lips to the artist’s, and they dart back to their static positions. The artist wakes, throws kisses at the triple statue, kneeling in front of it, then drinks some more, and gets back to sleep. When he wakes up again, it seems he had some idea during his sleep; he takes the hammer and chisel again, and rectifies again the elbow of one the graces.

Johann Schwarzer - 1907 - Der Traum der Bildhauers [DVD-PAL].mkv

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Another boring evening at the Baron’s home; he sits and reads a magazine, while his wife sits across the reading table, reading a newspaper. The housemaid enters, bringing a message from Franz, who convenes the Baron to an urgent meeting at the Club. Excusing himself, and thoroughly kissing his wife good-evening, the Baron leaves – to meet some lady of the night in the club’s private room, with champagne and a sofa for two. At home, the Baroness gets bored, until she has an idea, soon put to practice. She sends a man a letter, signed Divine Lola, giving him rendez-vous at a discreet pension. The modern Eve is not taking her husband’s infidelities sitting down. She lays in her undershirt on a bed inviting her lover in, in a long embrace.

Johann Schwarzer - 1907 - Eine modern Ehe [DVD-PAL].mkv

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Four Arab men in white burnouses, two women in grey, and one female cook in striped burnous, are sitting in front of a cave in a forest path. (From a piece of grey cloth over the entrance to the cave, two 8-pointed white stars hang incongruously: the Production company’s logo.) A pan hangs from a tripod. A girl in a colorful dress arrives with a Bucovina shepherd dog, and starts dancing in front of the men. First, half of the men go, then the others and the girl leave. Only one man stays, taking care of the food being prepared in the pot. Snivelling from their hiding place, a robber jumps him, and knocks him out with a blow. Three thugs join him, and they take whatever they find in the cave (guns). The dog comes back, and sits a while near the fallen cook. The Arabs return, and are alarmed at the robbery, and the killing of their cook. Meanwhile, somewhere in the forest, five girls reach a pond covered with moss, disrobe, and enter the water. Three are wearing headbands, but one takes hers off before getting wet. Refreshed now, the girls sit on towels on the grass to sundry – but they are attacked by the gang of robbers, and forced to follow them, leaving their clothes behind. One girl manages to escape, but she is hunted by two robbers. She jumps into the lake and swims away to the middle of it. The two men seem to be afraid of wetting their feet, and chose to fire their guns at her, but the girl escapes the shooting by diving deep into the lake, and they miss.

Johann Schwarzer - 1907 - Sklavenraub [DVD-PAL].mkv

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