id: Unidentified Film No. 151
director: Unknown
year: 1910
country: Unknown
alternative titles: Beim Hundeschlächter

Main title: "Beim Hundeschlächter. Fidelius Filmarchiv." (At the dog butcher's. Fidelius Film Archive) [frame scan 1] - In a butcher's shop. Signs in multiple languages: "Butcher shop. Wurstfabrik. ...Wurst ...Kraut..." [frame scan 2]. In the foreground, an assistant works on a big machine with a curiously wide funnel. In the background, the butcher sells sausages. A man carrying a basket with a handle enters. The butcher buys two small dogs from him and hurls them into the machine [frame scan 3].

Length: 15m
Format: 35mm, 1.19:1 (originally 1.33:1)
Picture/Sound: b/w, silent (with blank sound column)

Source notes
Deutsche Kinemathek - Museum für Film und Fernsehen

This unidentified film matches an unidentified film we have at the Library of Congress exactly down to the camera position, signs and costumes.
If we can get this identified as to what company it came from then we will actually be identifying two copies of this early silent.

This appears to be a variant on the Edison "Dog Factory" made in 1904. Having worked with the Paper Print Collection for 13 years, my hunch is that it is a Lubin production, remade for his distribution, but that is only a guess.

Frank Wylie's Lubin suggestion leads me to think that this is very likely the beginning of Lubin's two-part "Butcher Shop" (1903), referred to in most reference works as "Butcher Shop no. 1" and "Butcher Shop no. 2".

Description from the Lubin Catalog:
"Hans Pumpernickel and Hiney Dingelspiel are seen operating a sausage machine. 'Dey are making some gonversations mit demselves' when a man enters with two board yard dogs which they buy and proceed to grind them up into "sissage." Customers arrive, one by one, and purchase the 'wurst.' Hiney waits on them whilst Hans operates the machine. Picture No. 1 is 75 feet. No. 2 ends by throwing a Chinaman in the machine and is withdrawn in the regular 'Frankfurter' shape. His head appears in the end and Dingelspiel twirls it around by the queue. Both films are beautiful in point of photography and exceedingly funny."

"Butcher Shop no. 1" was released in Germany as "Die Wurstfabrik" (entry 16566 in Birett's Das Filmangebot in Deutschland 1895 - 1911), and "Butcher Shop no. 2" as "Die amerikanische Wurstfabrik" (Birett entry 386).