Le Cochon Danseur

Le Cochon Danseur (English: The Dancing Pig) is a silent, 4 minute long, black-and-white burlesque film released in 1907 by French company Pathé,[1] apparently based on a Vaudeville act.[1]

For the 1970 featurette, see Le Cochon.

Plot

In the film, a giant anthropomorphic pig, dressed in 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. In the infamous final scene, the pig moves his tongue and eyes around and then bare his teeth, possibly in an attempt to show the puppet's mechanical abilities.[1]

Legacy

The film had fallen into obscurity for over a century, but gained more notoriety around 2007, a century after its filming. It became an Internet meme, with Clarisse Loughrey stating that the film "will definitely be entering into your nightmares tonight."[2][1]

Sources
  1. "This 1907 silent film is all kinds of creepy". The Independent. 2016-03-09. Retrieved 2021-05-31.
  2. "Le Cochon Danseur (The Dancing Pig)". Know Your Meme. 29 March 2011.


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