Do You Reverse? (1932)

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Do You Reverse? (1932)

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United States of America.
Introductory intertitle reads: "Here's an odd fowl, that walks backward to go forward so she can look behind to see where she went!"
M/S of a little girl who the narrator tells us is called Mary O'Connor (note: this is American author Flannery O'Connor as a little girl) from Savannah, Georgia (at least that is what it sounds like). Mary holds a chicken which she lifts onto her shoulder. C/U of the chicken as it walks backwards. Narrator claims that this is the only chicken in the world that walks backwards.
It looks pretty realistic and then we see geese and ducks walking backwards too so it is presumably a camera trick using film reversal technique. Shots of cows and horses seeming to walk and trot backwards.
FILM ID:1588.19
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@elifozgen 5 жыл бұрын

Wow that's Flannery O'Connor, the famous story writer who later said: "When I was six I had a chicken that walked backward and was in the Pathé News. I was in it too with the chicken. I was just there to assist the chicken but it was the high point in my life. Everything since has been an anticlimax."

@Hexmeyer 10 жыл бұрын

The chicken really did walk backward. That foolishness with all the other animals on film reels played backward seems to leave doubt as to weather the chicken really could, but it did.

@parsnipmcgee329 4 жыл бұрын

I read about this Pathe flicker in an O'Connor biography. I CANNOT believe I'm actually seeing it. Thank you!

@Cmcfadyen7 10 жыл бұрын

Flanner O'Conner teaches a chicken to walk backward. British Pathe recently posted 3,500 hours of archived film shorts on KZfaq. I'd read in "The Life You Save May Be Your Own," a literary biography of American Catholic writers, that a Pathe film crew once filmed and featured Flannery O'Conner, who had -freak that she was - taught a chicken to walk backwards. I word searched "chicken backward Pathe" and here it is. Mary (Flannery) O'Conner of Savannah, Ga., with her backward walking chicken. Do You Reverse? (1932)