I don't know how Daniel from the Babylonian Exile became a Christian martyr, but it probably had something to do with the then-current image of Christians being tossed to the lions at the public games in the Colosseum in Rome. This offering is clearly Old Testament, since one of the walls is decorated with a winged lion that used to indicate Babylon or Assyria or similar old-timey wicked places, probably retitled before release to goose sales.
It's directed by Lucien Nonguet, one of Pathe's utility director of short subjects. He could turn his hand to almost anything, of course, and directed a few Max Linder comedies in the early 1910s. He seems to have been the director of choice for religious subjects. He was born in 1869 and joined Pathe in 1902 after working on the stage. He retired from movie production in 1920 and became a theater operator. He died in 1955.
