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Filmmaker · Belgium

Alfred Machin

Died in 1929

Alfred Machin was born in Blendecques, in the Pas-de-Calais, on 20 April 1877. A press photographer for L'Illustration, he was hired by Pathé, which sent him to Africa from 1907 to film wildlife. In 1912, Pathé put him in charge of developing production in Belgium and the Netherlands, at the head of its Brussels subsidiary, Belge Cinéma. During the war, he took part in the photographic service of the French army. He then opened in Nice a studio flanked by a small menagerie, and died in 1929.

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