id: Le Terrible méridional
director: Unknown year: 1908 country: France This is believed to be an unidentified French Theophile Pathe film from circa 1910.
It appears that the plot is as follows: At a party, a man dresses up in a white bear costume. The next scene is of town people rushing into the mayor’s office to complain about the bear and he issues a reward for the capture of the animal. The townsfolk find a hunter who comes across the bear in the woods after he has passed out from drinking. The hunter puts a corkscrew in the bear’s nose and leads him around by a chain. The film abruptly stops without any titles. This is LE TERRIBLE MERIDIONAL a Pathé frères production (nothing to do with Theophile Pathé) from 1908, Prod. No. 2037, o.l. 165m. The edgcode was used by Pthé from 1909-1911, so the print was made thenn. Which archive holds the film? I might need it for an animal programme... mariann lewinsky, 13.08.2010 A description of this film (in French) can be found on the Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé website
Oliver Hanley, Deutsche Kinemathek, 25.08.2010 The views expressed here belong to the author of the comment and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Deutsche Kinemathek.
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