Alfred Machin was one of the rare French film directors whose films expressed progressivist tendencies before World War I

World War I

World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

. Ironically it turns out during this war his films of the current events were of cinematographic service to the French Army. After 1920, Alfred
Machin devoted himself in particular to films of animals. Alfred Machin was a very prolific film director who directed in all more than one hundred films.

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