Hearing’s Believing - Sometimes! (1932)

Count Cutelli treats us to some animal impersonations. Introductory intertitle reads: “Introducing Count Cutelli, whose imitative efforts only begin with a multi-motored aeroplane.“ C/U of the Count who has his hands placed over his mouth in order to make a whirring sound in impression of an aircraft. “His ’lion’ is very realistic, but ’you can’t deceive dem lions.“ The count stands in front of a lion’s cage with a megaphone and torments the lions with his impersonations. One of the lions gets angry and roars at the Count from the cage. C/U of the Count roaring at the lion and the lion roaring back - a rather odd sight! C/U of the Count from the lion’s point of view. “A family party.“ The count sits by a water pump with a collection of farmyard animals. He is making the clucking sound of a chicken - he directs this towards a chicken he is holding in his lap. He then changes it to the sound of a rooster. The chicken jumps off his lap and walks off. The Count then does his goat impression f
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