Dog Tales (film)
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| Directed by | The Vitaphone Corporation |
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Running time | 8:00 |
| Language | English |
Dog Tales is a 1958
Plot
The cartoon consists of a series of
One gag is a backhanded reference to Disney's animated feature, Lady and the Tramp, which was released around three years before this short. The narrator (Robert C. Bruce) solemnly intones "Today, the dog appears in countless varieties of artificially produced breeds," while the screen shows drawings of a Russian Wolfhound, an English Bulldog, an American Cocker Spaniel, a Pekingese, a Chihuahua, a Scottish Terrier, and a Dachshund—all of them nearly identical in their 'artificial' depiction to dogs from the Disney film (Boris, Bull, Lady, Peg, Pedro, Jock, and Dachsie), where they all (with the exception of Peg, played by Peggy Lee) speak English with stereotypical accents associated with their breeds' countries of origin.
References
- ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.
- ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved June 6, 2020.
- ^ "The Warner Brothers Cartoon Companion: B".
External links
- Dog Tales at IMDb