Chapellerie et charcuterie mécanique

The automatic Sausage Machine was for many decades a vaudeville routine that 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 us (imdb)