ORIGINAL SOURCE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY69-…
This print of “The Dancing Pig” was discovered and restored by Lobster Films: https://www.lobsterfilms.com/fr/
It has been made available through Flicker Alley: https://www.flickeralley.com/
It’s an exciting find to stumble across some small vestige of the early silent film industry. So much has been lost through accident or negligence, that the pieces of film we have today from the turn of the century mark only a small portion of the entertainments created at the time.
A call for preservation which ends the second you watch Le Cochon Danseur; a 1907 silent film that will have you immediately fire up the furnaces in an attempt to destroy any last evidence of this pig which has so clearly crawled out from the depths of Hades to plague mankind with its two-step.
Produced by France’s Pathé, which should be noted are still going strong today despite this living nightmare they created, the 4-minute film was apparently based on a Vaudeville act; it sees a pig dressed in a fancy tuxedo attempt to seduce a young lady, who in turn rips off his clothes and forces him to dance despite his shameful nakedness.
Clarisse Loughrey – The Independent
- source: TheIndependent