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<p>[QUOTE="Ladybranch, post: 103152, member: 44"]<font size="5">The dancing pig sketch is probably based on the 1907 4 minute burlesque film </font></p><p><font size="5">"The Dancing Pig" - original title "Le cochon danseur" - by the French company Pathe. </font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5">"In the film, a giant anthropomorphic pig, dressed in human fancy clothes, dances with a girl, who later embarrasses him by tearing his clothes off. The two start to dance together, then walk into the curtains behind them. A disturbing scene is then shown where you see the pig moving his tongue and eyes around and then baring his teeth."</font></p><p><font size="5"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Cochon_Danseur" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Cochon_Danseur" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Cochon_Danseur</a></font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5">[MEDIA=youtube]IcCKPAnArsw[/MEDIA]</font></p><p><font size="5"><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=The+Dancing+Pig+(1907)&client=safari&hl=en-us&biw=1024&bih=649&prmd=ismvn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj4l62j1PTJAhUGHh4KHQJzCmQQ_AUIBigB" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.google.com/search?q=The+Dancing+Pig+(1907)&client=safari&hl=en-us&biw=1024&bih=649&prmd=ismvn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj4l62j1PTJAhUGHh4KHQJzCmQQ_AUIBigB" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/search?q=The+Dancing+Pig+(1907)&client=safari&hl=en-us&biw=1024&bih=649&prmd=ismvn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj4l62j1PTJAhUGHh4KHQJzCmQQ_AUIBigB</a></font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5">The sketch looks like something that might have appeared in the New Yorker?</font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5">--- Susan </font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5"></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ladybranch, post: 103152, member: 44"][SIZE=5]The dancing pig sketch is probably based on the 1907 4 minute burlesque film "The Dancing Pig" - original title "Le cochon danseur" - by the French company Pathe. "In the film, a giant anthropomorphic pig, dressed in human fancy clothes, dances with a girl, who later embarrasses him by tearing his clothes off. The two start to dance together, then walk into the curtains behind them. A disturbing scene is then shown where you see the pig moving his tongue and eyes around and then baring his teeth." [URL]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Cochon_Danseur[/URL] [MEDIA=youtube]IcCKPAnArsw[/MEDIA] [URL]https://www.google.com/search?q=The+Dancing+Pig+(1907)&client=safari&hl=en-us&biw=1024&bih=649&prmd=ismvn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj4l62j1PTJAhUGHh4KHQJzCmQQ_AUIBigB[/URL] The sketch looks like something that might have appeared in the New Yorker? --- Susan [/SIZE][/QUOTE]
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