Thursday, July 10, 2014

Duck Soup - Barking Dog Tattoo Gag - How did they do that?

The live shot of a barking dog coming out of the doghouse tattoo seemed technologically sophisticated for 1933 - how did they do that?  When I tried to find out how they did, I ran across an article on TCM's site (http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/122431%7C0/Trivia.html)  that claims the tattoo was originally an outhouse but it didn't make it by the censors.

How does the song about women choosing choosing between her husband and a lover make it through, but not an outhouse? Because one is visual and the other is obscured in dialogue/lyrics?  Never did find out how or how long it took them to do that sight gag though.

1 comment:

  1. I thought the dog in the tattoo was a cool trick. The entire movie looks dated in comparison to today's movies so this scene took me by surprise. Particularly since this is a movie made in the 1930s I thought this trick seemed ahead of its time.

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