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- AmyVernon, on 03/05/2009, -1/+42Hmmm. I don't think you wanna know what his hand is doing in the duck. ;-)
- mrgarci1, on 03/06/2009, -0/+39buried - totally old.
/s - chrisOrbit, on 03/06/2009, -4/+31Anyone else read that title wrong the first time?
- jtotheoe, on 03/05/2009, -1/+25THE WORLD MUST KNOW ABOUT GUS VISSER AND HIS MAGICAL DUCK
- jonathanseely, on 03/05/2009, -1/+23Wow. Entertainment has come a loooong way...
- dnb1997, on 03/06/2009, -3/+24singing dick?
- WordsnCollision, on 03/05/2009, -0/+21Wait til you see the bill.
- inactive, on 03/06/2009, -1/+22He has HIS FINGER IN THE DUCK'S ARSE
- feignNU, on 03/06/2009, -0/+19Agreed. Older than the internet.
- AndrewDB, on 03/06/2009, -1/+18Apparently you haven't looked back through your comment history lately.
HAYOOO! - Rain12913, on 03/06/2009, -2/+11This is probably the stupidest thing I've ever seen on Digg.
- bixby1, on 03/05/2009, -0/+8Early century entertainment. God bless it.
- C0ntraRadical, on 03/06/2009, -0/+8The trick to playing any instrument is in the fingering.
- ScottMcIntyre, on 03/05/2009, -2/+9That's totally quackers... especially the song 'Ma, He's Making Eyes at Me!'. At least the duck's in tune ;-)
- ktm9rick, on 03/06/2009, -1/+7wow, im so glad im not the only one who thought thats what it said
- AxmxZ, on 03/06/2009, -1/+7...Boy, did I ever misread that title.
- bigysmalls, on 03/06/2009, -0/+5Me Too!
- inactive, on 03/06/2009, -2/+6So that's what the AFLAC duck did before it got its big break.
- mishaneah, on 03/06/2009, -1/+5Dude. This is older than the internet
- AxmxZ, on 03/06/2009, -0/+4Play me out, Johnny!
- vl002001, on 03/06/2009, -0/+4read it as "Gus Visser and His Singing Dick".. and I'm sure I'm not the only one
- Midtowner, on 03/06/2009, -0/+4An Interesting Novelty, & Part of Cinema History, 30 March 2005
Author: Snow Leopard from Ohio
This oddball feature is worth seeing both as an interesting novelty and as a piece of cinema history. Gus Visser performs one of his offbeat vaudeville routines, and Theodore Case uses the act as an experiment in his efforts to create a workable way to add sound to movies.
Case is one of a number of now-forgotten pioneers who painstakingly laid the groundwork for sound films in the years before the coming of "The Jazz Singer", which is now so much better remembered. The quest to add sound to moving pictures began almost as soon as movies themselves began, with experiments dating all the way back to the 1890s. Case's attempt is very good, and while the sound quality is far from what anyone would accept today, it is not that much worse than the quality of the earliest all-sound movies, and you can understand most of Visser's words.
The act itself is amusing, at least for a time, and it is the kind of novelty that worked rather well in vaudeville as part of a series of assorted routines. It is apparently now unknown to what extent this feature was circulated, or whether it was ever widely released, and that may account for its undeserved obscurity.
To get sound features to capture the public's interest, it would eventually take features with more going for them than a man holding a duck, but this really is not a bad effort in itself. It is definitely one that anyone with a serious interest in cinema history would want to watch. - majortom1981, on 03/06/2009, -0/+3Sounds like something that would be in the muppet show
- snoop396, on 03/06/2009, -0/+3he's definitely doing that duck
- JFDkthx, on 03/06/2009, -0/+34thd
- thashiz, on 03/06/2009, -1/+3"It's called 'The Aristocrats'!"
- antoniuk, on 03/06/2009, -0/+2I came here just to post that. You are correct sir!
- xdfgf, on 03/06/2009, -2/+4That would've been awesome on acid.
- Hockey13, on 03/06/2009, -1/+3I'm taller than Verne Troyer and I run faster than Stephen Hawking.
I say we call the USOC and see if we can get me running in the 2012 100m finale. - alapoet, on 03/05/2009, -3/+5Beaks the hell out of Michael Jackson.
- wicketr, on 03/06/2009, -0/+2He's obviously doing something back there and and the duck is quacking "rape!"
- mnemy, on 03/06/2009, -0/+1So that's where Steve Irwin learned it
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids. ... - Brododium, on 03/06/2009, -0/+1The duck sang too softly, you can 'ardly hear him.
- ChaosProfessor, on 03/06/2009, -2/+3greatest thing on the internet. I can die happy now
- DotGet, on 03/06/2009, -1/+2They probably had to zap the duck or get him to respond to some kind of stimulus like a pinch. I can't really think of anything else. You guys?
- BrianD2, on 03/06/2009, -0/+1Wat?
- Diggpick, on 03/06/2009, -0/+1Teeth
- techtock, on 03/06/2009, -2/+3I remember this. This was directed by Theodore Case while perfecting his variable density sound-on-film process.Yes, yes. I remember like it was yesterday. The duck quacks each time the word "Ma" is said, sounding as if she is saying "Ma". And if I'm not mistaken, the film was selected for the National Film Registry at the Library of Congress as a historically important American film. Quite hilarious, ol' Gus.
- vidaliasweet, on 03/06/2009, -0/+1Is this a set up for some abysmal shocker comment?
- Technopundit, on 03/06/2009, -0/+1In YOUR world, perhaps...
- bkrejchi, on 03/06/2009, -0/+1They don't seem to echo because a quack is staticky and the echo blends in with the original. The outcome was if the quack is short and loud, it echoes.
- bkrejchi, on 03/06/2009, -0/+1yea, hahaha. My mind was in the gutter and I saw this in the corner of my eye.
- Technopundit, on 03/06/2009, -0/+1This is indeed one of the most important pieces of archival footage to emerge in recent years.
- ThatGirlTasha, on 03/06/2009, -0/+1Myth busters did that one -but I forgot the outcome : (
- equitium, on 03/07/2009, -0/+1I now know what the internet was made for.. I mean really... I have been enlightened..
- Technopundit, on 03/06/2009, -0/+1Unfotunately, the duck was killed in an air traffic accident outside of Newark, New Jersey that very same year.
There were no survivors. - matthewf01, on 03/11/2009, -0/+1You see, you gently massage the prostate...
- ExoM7, on 05/11/2009, -0/+1Only reason I clicked.
- DotGet, on 03/06/2009, -0/+1No.
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