College Hounds
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
Dogs act out a parody of old college football movies. A star player named Red Mange gets distracted by a temptress, and the film overdubs the dogs' movements with spoken dialogue. It is a short comedy built around animal gags and silent-era tropes.
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What happens
College Hounds is a 1929 American comedy short film, released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, structured as a parody of college football films of the silent era, particularly those that feature temptresses who distract players from their obligations, such as 1925's The Plastic Age, 1926's One Minute to Play, starring iconic football celebrity Red Grange, 1927's West Point or 1928's Hold 'Em Yale. The cast consists of performing dogs whose chewing or barking jaw movements are overdubbed with dialogue, with the football hero main character named "Red Mange". The first of nine black-and-white two-reel Dogville Comedies directed for MGM between 1929 and 1931 by Zion Myers and Jules White, both of whom also wrote, produced and provided voices, the films have been intermittently broadcast on Turner Classic Movies and are available on DVD as part of the Dogville Shorts Collection. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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