The Dancing Pig (1907) - FULL UNCUT [HD]. This little weird film sat in some storage unit in France for over 100 years until it was discovered.

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[–]at_finn 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

That pig costume was pretty cool

[–]jet199 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

The costumes are so good.

I swear Hollywood costumes didn't get up to that standard until 50 year later.

[–]Dunwidit 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (8 children)

That is an odd little film. I'm not an expert in any of these things... But for a weird little film like that to have a soundtrack of any kind that long ago... Not impossible but it seems unlikely. Especially for a film that odd. Ad that to the quality of the costumes....

[–]Chipit[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

The soundtrack wasn't encoded on the film as happened in the talkie era. It was played by an actual piano player off to the side.

[–]Dunwidit 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

I was playing with the video presented... I'm guessing just tagged on for effect?

[–]Chipit[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Bruh I don't know. I just saw a cool film and shared the link because I thought other people would think it was cool too. I'm not an expert in the soundtracks of silent films. Here, read: https://thebioscope.net/2011/08/29/when-silents-were-silent/

[–]Dunwidit 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Will you correct and assuming the people would also think it's cool or at least I know I do. But the quality seems so good that I was questioning it's authenticity... So I researched it a bit and it appears to be quite authentic. But I didn't do a lot of research and I didn't look at it the other other clips which I will do later see if maybe the music changes or how the music got attached to the film but it's it's good I liked it

[–]jet199 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Usually the music is improvised by someone who knows the style of the time.

[–]Chipit[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Improvised? Huh? No. There is tons of sheet music from the time. In many cases the pieces were listed alongside the films.

People don't make up music. It's not free-form jazz. What a weird take.

[–]jet199 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Chippy, you are an idiot.

https://www.silentfilmmusic.com/improvisation-silent-film-music/

"People don't make up music."

Wow.

New levels of pure stupidity.

But keep accusing everyone else of being weird or suspicious.

[–]Chipit[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Just can't stop the rampant ad hominem name-calling, eh?