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myrmepropagandistNo Gods. No Masters.
Another way to look at this is:
men place animal famous for biting and tearing things apart, a literal "terrier" in front of expensive machine and are shocked when the obvious occurs.
Proto Himbo European@futurebird "I never thought the Victrola-eating dog would eat MY Victrola!"
Andrew@futurebird Terriers eating peoples gramophones party
Ruth [โ๏ธ ๐ฉ๐ปโ๐ป๐โ๐ป๐งต๐ชก๐ต]@futurebird I re-enter a room where my pittie and husband are chilling and the pup always needs several minutes of bone chewing to contain his excitement ๐
Damon L. Wakes@futurebird It's hard to be sure, but they don't actually seem surprised. It looks as though the guy on the right lets go of the dog once it's already staining to get at the phonograph horn. The one on the left doesn't exactly rush to stop it. Given that it was being filmed, I wonder if they simply let this happen for the camera?
TobyBartelsI agree. I watched a longer version on YouTube (it's called Nipper Runs Amok, although this isn't the original Nipper, who was dead by then), and they're smiling and laughing through the whole thing.
PhosphenesI think the man on the right fell over laughing.
Niles Essanay SilentFilmMuseum@futurebird His name was Nipper and it makes sense now.
zilla@Essanay @futurebird ๐คฃ appropriately named
a HOT Rubie I, for one, would like to imagine that he was trying to help his master escape from that infernal contraption...
Yaoi Box Balloon@Essanay @futurebird Vibes tell me this could be an older incarnation of my cat Crunchy.
Who got his name for the same reasons (fingers are his favorite).
๐๐ท๐ญ๐๐ฃ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ญ๐๐ฎ ๐คThey never try anything like that with a cat.๐
Daniel Lakeland๐ด โถ ๐
Local crow@futurebird I remember seeing this dog and the speaker in the Smithsonian. Cute to see what else the dog did besides barking.
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Sci-Fi Girl
oscarfalconMaybe RCA should change the logo now?
Comrade elronxenu@futurebird No dogs. No masters.
Bongolian@elronxenu @futurebird Master is the bastard.
For whom the Taco Bell tolls@futurebird bad dogs. no biscuits.
John Harden@futurebird this is magnificent
Toni Aittoniemi@futurebird completely reasonable response
Vive Levant@futurebird in French we could say Anarchien !
tbehrensโก๏ธ@futurebird Whose voice did they play to him? ๐ค
Magiskeld
๐ breaking ranks.@futurebird the best of it: Man on the right laughing with great delight at the dog's behavior, almost forgetting to do anything about it ๐งก๐งก๐งก
Mal ๐ฟ๐ฆ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ฎ๐ช๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐ธ๐ช@futurebird No Voices either, unfortunately, because it looks like we miss the audible hilarity.
crypticcelery ๐ EH23@futurebird I wanna know what nonsense they were playing to that dog, seems like a fun little templateโฆ
Tim M@futurebird It was my wife and Lester Smith of Abbey Road Studios who extracted the photos from the mutoscope Lester had found and digitised this video (Lester was the specialist in restoring and maintaining old studio equipment esp microphones up til his retirement last year)
https://www.abbeyroad.com/news/lester-smith-celebrates-50-years-working-at-abbey-road-studios-2389
ArchaeoIain
Carol Brownson@futurebird
Now if they'd just hired a cat....
Now if they'd just hired a cat....
Jo Dusepo 
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Thomas Preece@dusepo @futurebird Sadly not the original Nipper (he died in 1895 and the film was made in 1900), but a pretty good lookalike!
@thomas @futurebird I love that you knew that lol.
gjm@futurebird This is hilarious but alas it can't be the original Nipper, who died three years before the first version of the painting that was adapted to make the "His Master's Voice" image.
Joby 
(he/him)@futurebird only dog
Glacies delenda est@futurebird 3 links with relevant info for those who, like me, were immediately compelled to find out more about this video:
Wikipedia has some good info about Nipper and the original painting - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nipper
Information about mutoscopes in general and โNipper Runs Amokโ specifically - https://www.emiarchivetrust.org/secrets-of-the-emi-archive-1/
And the film itself - https://youtu.be/XNlkMsBh6I4?si=rxFuUnLQsYRiIM7Q
Oli@TheADHDM
Great work digging up the links, thank you i will follow them tomorrow ( got to sleep sometime)
Great work digging up the links, thank you i will follow them tomorrow ( got to sleep sometime)
lopta@futurebird Nipper!
Sci Fi Brickyards ๐@futurebird
Is this genuine? Because I love it
Is this genuine? Because I love it
It's and old film that was called "Nipper runs a-mock"
Nipper being the name of the RCA terrier.
But, it's probably not the exact same dog. Just a variation on the theme from the same time period.
Does that make it "genuine"? IDK
Nipper Runs Amok! - Official video
@futurebird I wonder if they were actually trying to demo the slogan, and play a recording of his master's voice?