The automatic Sausage Machine was for many decades a vaudeville routine. It was committed to film several times, most notably by Edison in 1895: take a live dog, place him in the hopper, turn the crank, and out comes a chain of hot dogs. But Alice Guy at Gaumont went Edison one better with this lively reenactment -- probably from a variant that was playing the French music halls -- in which you got not only sausages, but straw hats.... a reference, no doubt, to what people have long said was used as filler in these goods.
Say, have you looked at the list of ingredients of spare parts of animals used in these things recently? At least the hats are good ones!
Say, have you looked at the list of ingredients of spare parts of animals used in these things recently? At least the hats are good ones!