The Dancing Pig

Name: The Dancing Pig
Director: Millard Mercury
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1907
Duration: 4 min
Cast: Odéo

1907 Comedy 4 minutes Directed by Millard Mercury

About The Dancing Pig

A pig in evening clothes flirts with a young woman in the street. She tears the suit off him, then makes him dance.

Cast & crew

Millard Mercury Director
Odéo

More about The Dancing Pig

Pathé released the black-and-white burlesque in 1907. Wikidata names Millard Mercury as director. It films the vaudeville act Le cochon mondain. Odéo plays the pig, in a suit he designed. The French title is Le Cochon danseur.

Themes

A pig in a tailcoat
The suit pulled off
A dance demanded afterward
pig
Odéo
vaudeville
Pathé
Le cochon mondain
dance

Music

Silent.

Notes

Wikidata times it at 4 minutes. Older notes that say 2 minutes are short of that.
The act's joke is the humiliation: the suit comes off, and the dance is the apology.

Scenes

The pig courts the woman in the street.
She rips the clothes off him.
He dances for her.

Influenced by

Odéo's vaudeville act Le cochon mondain

Also available

Wikimedia Commons (Le cochon danseur (1907) - yt.webm)