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Le Cochon Danseur

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'Le Cochon Danseur' (English: 'The Dancing Pig') is a silent, 4 minute long, black-and-white burlesque film released in 1907 by French company Path, apparently based on a Vaudeville act. In the film, a giant anthropomorphic pig, dressed in fancy clothes, dances with a girl, who later embarrasses him by tearing his clothes off. The two start to dance together, then walk into the curtains behind them. In the infamous final scene, the pig moves his tongue and eyes around and then bare his teeth, possibly in an attempt to show the puppet's mechanical abilities.

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The film had fallen into obscurity for over a century, but gained more notoriety around 2007. It became an Internet meme, with Clarisse Loughrey stating that the film "will definitely be entering into your nightmares tonight."

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