Alfred Machin (director)

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Alfred Machin
Born
Eugène Alfred Jean-Baptiste Machin

(1877-04-20)20 April 1877
Blendecques, Pas-de-Calais, France
Died16 June 1929(1929-06-16) (aged 52)
Nice, France
Occupation(s)Actor and Film Director

Alfred Machin (20 April 1877 – 16 June 1929) was a French actor and film director. He is remembered to have been one of the few French film directors whose films expressed progressive tendencies before World War I. He was also a pioneer of aerial filming. After 1920 Alfred Machin devoted himself to films of animals.[1]

Machin started his career as a

press photographer for the magazine L'illustration. He was then recruited by the film production company Pathé which sent him in 1907 to Africa where he realised in particular a large number of short films on wild animals.[2]

Machin was sent in 1909 by Pathé to The

anti-war film Maudite soit la guerre
.

During World War I, Machin took part in the foundation of the Photographic Service of the

D.W. Griffith in Hearts of the World[3] He only directed one horror film, The Manor House of Fear in 1927, which is thought to have been theatrically shown in the United States by Universal Pictures.[4]

After the war, Machin created a Film studio in Nice, to which a small zoo was attached where he kept wild animals used in his productions. He died in 1929 as a result of an injury inflicted by a panther during the shooting of a film.

Machin directed 156 films, of which 32 are preserved.

Selected filmography

Le Moulin maudit (1909)

References

  1. ^ George Sadoul, Dictionnaire des Cinéastes, 1965 (fr)
  2. ^ Guido Convents, À la recherche des images oubliées. La préhistoire du cinéma en Afrique 1897-1918, p. 128-131 (fr)
  3. ^ Machin, Alfred in Dictionnaire du cinéma – Les réalisateurs, Jean Tulard Robert Laffont, 1999 (fr)
  4. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2
    .
  5. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2
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