La Charcuterie mécanique
| La Charcuterie mécanique | |
|---|---|
 Scene from the movie by Brothers Lumière | |
| Directed by | Lumière Brothers |
Release date |
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Running time | 49 seconds |
| Country | France |
| Language | silent |
La Charcuterie mécanique (The Mechanical Butcher) is an 1895 "humorous subject" (as classed by its makers) created by the Lumière Brothers. In Phil Hardy's The Aurum Film Encyclopedia: Science Fiction it is listed as the first ever science fiction film.[1] The action involves a live pig that is placed into a machine (essentially a large wooden container). The pig is then turned into various pork products, which are lifted out of the other end of the machine.
The theme was widely repeated in films such as Making Sausages (aka The End of All Things) (1897) by George Albert Smith, which depicted cats and dogs being converted into sausages (along with a duck and a boot) by a machine. American Mutoscope and Biograph made The Sausage Machine the same year, which was a parody of the conveyor belt system.[1] Edison Studios followed with Fun in a Butcher Shop (1901) and Dog Factory (1904), both of which showed pet dogs, again being turned into sausages. The former showed simply a primitive crank, while the latter film depicted an electric machine with a reversible process.[2]
The film has been possible considered black comedy due to placing the machine into the pigs as pork and sell them that meant to be shocking.
Plot
[edit]The first scene begins with the two people handling the big fat pig to the machine and then being lifted by those peoples to put in the wooden machine and then, became and turned into pieces of pork. The machine creates a spinning wheel behind the machine each become bodily parts of pigs placed into it. The film is shot on one take scene.
Name of the machine
[edit]it would suggest the name of that machine in the front of the peoples was a title says CHARCUTÉRIE MECANIQUE CRAQUE a MARSEILLE which could be the full name of the film and also the name translates to english as mechanical charcuterie cracks in marseille
References
[edit]- ^ a b Hardy, Phil (1984). The Aurum Film Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Science Fiction. Overlook Press. pp. 19–24.
- ^ Richards, Gregory B. (1984). Science Fiction Movies. Bison Books. p. 20. ISBN 0-8317-7705-2. Retrieved 2 February 2024.