This 1907 silent film 'Le Cochon Danseur' is all kinds of creepy
Get used to that face, because this pig will definitely be entering into your nightmares tonight
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Your support makes all the difference.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.
The piece then ends with a close-up of the pig in question; an obvious attempt to display the costume's feat of facial manoeuvrability, yet in reality a horrifying display of a sneering, tongue wagging, winking monstrosity.
What always begs the question with these artefacts dating from the turn of the century is whether people at the time actually found this cute. Have our cultural sensibilities really evolved so much that there was once a time in history in which people would look at a man in a giant pig costume, wagging its tongue around and winking at the audience, and not think it was an absolute terror?
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