Dog Factory (1904)

Directed by

Edwin Stanton Porter

Genre

comedy, silent film

Country

United States

Runtime

4 min

Rating

4.9 of 10 from 17 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two inventors run a factory where sausages go into a machine and turn into live dogs. It is a short silent comedy that plays with a silly idea.

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What happens

Dog Factory is a 1904 silent comic trick film directed by Edwin S. Porter for the Edison Manufacturing Company. The four-and-a-half minute film offers a comic twist on a popular idea from film and vaudeville. The film concerns two inventors who run a "Dog Factory", in which strings of sausages can be fed into a machine, and turned into live dogs. The film has been described as an early example of science-fiction. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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