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Because Pirou is nearly unknown as a pornographic filmmaker, credit is often given to other films for being the first.

In Black and White and Blue ( 2008 ), one of the most scholarly attempts to document the origins of the clandestine ' stag film ' trade, Dave Thompson recounts ample evidence that such an industry first had sprung up in the brothels of Buenos Aires and other South American cities by the turn of 20th century, and then quickly spread through Central Europe over the following few years.

However, none of these earliest pornographic films are known to have survived.

According to Patrick Robertson's Film Facts, " the earliest pornographic motion picture which can definitely be dated is A L ' Ecu d ' Or ou la bonne auberge " made in France in 1908.

The plot depicts a weary soldier who has a tryst with a servant girl at an inn.

The Argentinian El Satario, whose original title could have been El Sátiro ( The Satyr ), might be even older ; it has been dated to somewhere between 1907 and 1912.

He also notes that " the oldest surviving pornographic films are contained in America's Kinsey Collection.

One film demonstrates how early pornographic conventions were established.

The German film Am Abend ( 1910 ) is a ten-minute film which begins with a woman masturbating alone in her bedroom, and progresses to scenes of her with a man performing straight sex, fellatio and anal penetration.