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Film, Video [Animal act with baboon, dog and donkey] Inventory title: Spanuth's vodvil - Zouary no. 149 / Zouary can no. 149

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Title

  • [Animal act with baboon, dog and donkey]

Other Title

  • Inventory title: Spanuth's vodvil - Zouary no. 149
  • Zouary can no. 149

Summary

  • Opens on a closeup of a baboon "playing" a violin, then cuts to a medium shot of the same. The baboon wears a white short-sleeved shirt with a loose bow tie and tweed pants. Cuts to a closeup of the baboon in a circular mask or iris effect, without the violin but with a collar around his neck and a striped kitten that he places on his shoulder. Another iris effect opens to a long shot of a stage with a painted backdrop of a river. Standing at stage left is a woman in a spangled, sleeveless dress to the knee and high laced boots, holding the leash of a dark donkey. The baboon stands center stage, near a man in a white animal trainer suit with dark piping and a white cap. On a chair stage right sits a black and white spotted dog. A series of cuts show the baboon performing various tricks, including roller-skating in a circle around the man, doing a walking handstand, circling the stage atop a large ball, and riding the ball down a ramp with the kitten in his arms. The dog then creates figure-eights through the woman's legs as she walks, and jumps a rope held by the woman and baboon. Cuts to the baboon riding a bicycle in a circle around the man. Cuts to the baboon leading the donkey onstage, and then to the donkey apparently play-biting and kicking two men. The gag of the men trying to mount the donkey--only to be bitten, kicked, or thrown off--is repeated, with one intertitle: "A 100% kick." Ends after the baboon jumps on one man.

Names

  • Spanuth, Hans A., production
  • Commonwealth Pictures Corporation
  • AFI/Zouary (Maurice) Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • United States : [Commonwealth Pictures Corp., 1919 or 1920?]

Headings

  • -  Circus animals--United States
  • -  Baboons--United States
  • -  Donkeys--Behavior--United States
  • -  Dogs--United States
  • -  Silent films

Genre

  • Vaudeville
  • Animal films and programs
  • Shorts

Notes

  • -  Copyright: reg. unknown.
  • -  No copyright registration or production and distribution information could be found for such an act, but the film appears to be an uncopyrighted Spanuth's original vod-a-vil movie given the similarities in camera technique to identified Spanuths.
  • -  Unlike other suspected Spanuths, this film has no opening titles; supplied title taken from M/B/RS shelflist card.
  • -  Duration: 1:28 at 16 fps.
  • -  Third film on reel with: The flying De Armands, Spanish Goldinies [Spanuth's original vod-a-vil movies, no. 5], and Tom Tinker's pony patter.
  • -  Sources used: Copyright catalog, motion pictures, 1912-1939; M/B/RS copyright descriptions; M/B/RS Acquisition files (AFI/Zouary file); Motion picture news, v. 21, p. 2598.
  • -  Probably filmed ca. 1918-19 in Chicago.
  • -  Received: 4/1/80 from LC film lab; ref print; preservation AFI/Zouary (Maurice) Collection.
  • -  Received: 1/14/77 from LC film lab; dupe neg; preservation AFI/Zouary (Maurice) Collection.

Medium

  • 1 reel of 1 (87 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm. ref print.
  • 1 reel of 1 (87 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm. dupe neg.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • FEB 3202 (ref print)
  • FPD 1669 (dupe neg)

Repository

  • Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA dcu

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 96521533

Online Format

  • image
  • video

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Chicago citation style:

Commonwealth Pictures Corporation, and Afi/Zouary. Animal Act With Baboon, Dog and Donkey. produceds by Spanuth, Hans A.Uction [United States: Commonwealth Pictures Corp., or 1920?, 1919] Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/96521533/.

APA citation style:

Commonwealth Pictures Corporation & Afi/Zouary. (1919) Animal Act With Baboon, Dog and Donkey. Spanuth, H. A. U., prod [United States: Commonwealth Pictures Corp., or 1920?] [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/96521533/.

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Commonwealth Pictures Corporation, and Afi/Zouary. Animal Act With Baboon, Dog and Donkey. prod by Spanuth, Hans A.Uction [United States: Commonwealth Pictures Corp., or 1920?, 1919] Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/96521533/>.