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The domestic dog (Canis lupus familiaris), is a subspecies of the gray wolf (Canis lupus), a member of the Canidae family of the mammilian order Carnivora. The term "domestic dog" is generally used for both domesticated and feral varieties. The dog may have been the first animal to be domesticated, and has been the most widely kept working, hunting, and companion animal in human history. The word "dog" may also mean the male of a canine species, as opposed to the word "bitch" for the female of the species.
The present lineage of dogs was domesticated from gray wolves about 15,000 years ago. Remains of domesticated dogs have been found in Siberia and Belgium from about 33,000 years ago. None of these early domestication lineages seem to have survived the Last Glacial Maximum. Although mDNA suggest a split between dogs and wolves around 100,000 years ago no specimens predate 33,000 years ago that are clearly morphologically domesticated dog.
Dogs' value to early human hunter-gatherers led to them quickly becoming ubiquitous across world cultures. Dogs perform many roles for people, such as hunting, herding, pulling loads, protection, assisting police and military, companionship, and, more recently, aiding handicapped individuals. This impact on human society has given them the nickname "Man's Best Friend" in the Western world. In some cultures, dogs are also source of meat. In 2001, there were estimated to be 400 million dogs in the world.
Laura Phillips "Laurie" Anderson (born June 5, 1947) is an American experimental performance artist, composer and musician who plays violin and keyboards and sings in a variety of experimental music and art rock styles. Initially trained as a sculptor, Anderson did her first performance-art piece in the late 1960s. Throughout the 1970s, Anderson did a variety of different performance-art activities. She became widely known outside the art world in 1981 when her single "O Superman" reached number two on the UK pop charts. She also starred in and directed the 1986 concert film Home of the Brave.
Anderson is a pioneer in electronic music and has invented several devices that she has used in her recordings and performance art shows. In 1977, she created a tape-bow violin that uses recorded magnetic tape on the bow instead of horsehair and a magnetic tape head in the bridge. In the late 1990s, she developed a talking stick, a six-foot-long baton-like MIDI controller that can access and replicate different sounds.
Actors: Warren Mitchell (actor), Bill Kerr (actor), William McInnes (actor), Dan Wyllie (actor), George Shevtsov (actor), Bill McCluskey (actor), Angie Milliken (actress), Leeanna Walsman (actress), Ian Meadows (actor), Ben Young (actor), Geoff Kelso (actor), Alan John (composer), Emma Booth (actress), Claire van der Boom (actress), John Brennan (actor),
Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery,Actors: Mel Blanc (actor), Mel Blanc (actor), Mel Blanc (actor), Mel Blanc (actor), Edward Selzer (producer), Chuck Jones (writer), Milt Franklyn (composer), Chuck Jones (director), Treg Brown (editor),
Plot: On the French Riviera, a female cat is frightened by sudden outbursts of barking by every dog around her. So, to scare them away, she paints her back with a white stripe like that of a skunk. The dogs, on seeing her stripe, run away and hide in fright. But she doesn't receive the peace she'd expected, because Pepe Le Pew, the amorous French skunk, sees her, thinks she's a girl skunk, and tries to make love to her.
Keywords: bad-smell, cartoon-cat, cartoon-dog, cartoon-skunk, cat, cat-versus-dog, character-name-in-title, dog, french-riviera, french-stereotypeActors: Peggy Lee (actress), Peggy Lee (actress), Peggy Lee (actress), Dal McKennon (actor), Dal McKennon (actor), Peggy Lee (actress), Bill Thompson (actor), Stan Freberg (actor), Alan Reed (actor), Dal McKennon (actor), Bill Thompson (actor), Bill Thompson (actor), Bill Thompson (actor), Bill Thompson (actor), Dick Huemer (writer),
Plot: Lady is a pampered Cocker Spaniel who lives in the ritzy part of town. Everything is great until Jim Dear and Darling, Lady's owners have a baby. Then Aunt Sarah and her two scheming Siamese cats come to stay. Lady is thought to be vicious and is muzzled and put outside. Tramp comes to her rescue. Lady runs away with him only to be caught by the dogcatcher.
Keywords: 1900s, accidental-kiss, animal-escapes-pound, animal-name-in-title, aunt, baby, baby-born, baby-shower, barber's-pole, beaverActors: Mel Blanc (actor), Mel Blanc (actor), Mel Blanc (actor), Mel Blanc (actor), Mel Blanc (actor), Edward Selzer (producer), Warren Foster (writer), Carl W. Stalling (composer), Friz Freleng (director), Treg Brown (editor),
Plot: Hungry alley cat Sylvester spots Tweety in his nest, which sits on a tree high atop a dog pound where numerous bulldogs reside. Among the best gags in this cartoon (and there's lots of them): Sylvester walks a light wire like a tightrope walker, only to have a collective doggy-breath blow him off; Sylvester using a swing to gain access to the tree, only to have the dogs join; the cat using hypnotism to stop the dogs dead in their tracks (Tweety tricks Sylvester into revealing the secret); Sylvester disguising himself as a dog; the dogs burrowing under the pound, having accurately anticipated that Sylvester will do the same; and the dogs waiting in the tree branches waiting for Sylvester to climb the tree. The best gag, however, is saved for last Sylvester paints a white stripe down his back to make the dogs think he's a skunk. That trick works too well, as it also attracts Pepe Le Pew, who desires to make love with the lisping puddy tat.
Keywords: animal-in-title, bad-smell, bird, cartoon-bird, cartoon-canary, cartoon-cat, cartoon-dog, cartoon-skunk, cat, dogActors: Mel Blanc (actor), Mel Blanc (actor), Mel Blanc (actor), Mel Blanc (actor), Bea Benaderet (actress), Edward Selzer (producer), Warren Foster (writer), Carl W. Stalling (composer), Friz Freleng (director), Treg Brown (editor),
Plot: Tweety Bird moves into a city brownstone with his mistress, Granny. A stray Sylvester Cat watches them move in and delights on seeing Tweety. Another of Granny's pets is a bulldog who, as usual, complicates Sylvester's plan to sneak up close enough to make a grab for Tweety. Sylvester unsuccessfully tries all sorts of disguises, including a moving man, a lamp, a bearskin, and a female dog. He ends up being captured by the dog catcher and placed in the back of a truck surrounded by all sorts of snarling canines.
Keywords: cartoon-canary, cartoon-cat, cartoon-dog, falling-piano, grand-piano, merrie-melodies, moving-van, piano-moving, spiral-staircase, surrealismActors: Mel Blanc (actor), Mel Blanc (actor), Mel Blanc (actor), Mel Blanc (actor), Bea Benaderet (actress), Edward Selzer (producer), Warren Foster (writer), Carl W. Stalling (composer), Friz Freleng (director), Treg Brown (editor),
Plot: Sylvester Cat discovers Tweety Bird in a pet store window. Tweety is taken to be delivered by truck to a new owner - Granny. Sylvester chases the delivery truck to Granny's home, where Granny has a huge, fenced-in area for her army of bulldogs. Sylvester makes several unsuccessful attempts to pass the dogs and reach Tweety inside Granny's house.
Keywords: bulldog, cartoon-cat, cat, granny, looney-tunes, pet-shop, sylvester-and-tweety, sylvester-the-cat, tweety-birdActors: Mel Blanc (actor), Mel Blanc (actor), Mel Blanc (actor), Mel Blanc (actor), Edward Selzer (producer), Warren Foster (writer), Carl W. Stalling (composer), Robert McKimson (director), Treg Brown (editor),
Plot: Bugs Bunny ends up at a dog race and decides to take in the show. However, the mechanical rabbit is released (for the dogs to follow), and Bugs falls head over heals in love with the "light brown hare"! Unfortunately, when Bugs sees all of the dogs chasing "that cute little bunny", he valiantly runs onto the track and starts to take down the dogs one by one! Things seem to be in the bag, unless you count a huge grey dog that isn't going to let Bugs stand in his way of winning!
Keywords: animal-in-title, anthropomorphic-animal, anthropomorphism, bullfighting, color-in-title, delayed-gravity, dog-chases-rabbit, dog-fetches-dynamite, dog-racing, electric-kissActors: Mel Blanc (actor), Mel Blanc (actor), Mel Blanc (actor), Michael Maltese (actor), Tedd Pierce (actor), Bea Benaderet (actress), Edward Selzer (producer), Michael Maltese (writer), Tedd Pierce (writer), Carl W. Stalling (composer), Friz Freleng (director), Treg Brown (editor),
Plot: The sycophantic newsreel reporter Lola Beverly wants Bugs Bunny's life story. The great Hollywood star tells of his humble beginnings in the tenements of Manhattan. We see poor Bugs terrorized by a gang of canine toughs led by a bullying bulldog who smokes a cigar and wears a derby and a turtleneck sweater. He's subjected to a cruel "dog pile on the rabbit," but our wily Bugs soon turns the tables on these toughs. Bugs subjects his main tormenter to pies in his face; a confusing performance in front of an Egyptian cigarette billboard; a fall from the top of a building; and an embarrassing entanglement in a series of clotheslines. Bugs Bunny finds his real saviors are Betty Smith and a book title calculated to win the heart of any New York bow-wow.
Keywords: 1940s, billboard, biography-episode, bowler-hat, bulldog, business-suit, cartoon-dog, cartoon-rabbit, cigar-smoking, derby-hatActors: Mel Blanc (actor), Mel Blanc (actor), Mel Blanc (actor), Mel Blanc (actor), Robert C. Bruce (actor), Leon Schlesinger (producer), Carl W. Stalling (composer), Chuck Jones (director), Treg Brown (editor),
Genres: Animation, Comedy, Family, Short,Actors: Treg Brown (editor), Mel Blanc (actor), Mel Blanc (actor), Robert C. Bruce (actor), Sara Berner (actress), Henry Binder (producer), Leon Schlesinger (producer), Tex Avery (actor), Carl W. Stalling (composer), Tex Avery (director), Melvin Millar (writer),
Plot: A cruise to Nome, Alaska, starts with some cruise-ship jokes: the ship pulls out of the harbor like a car, raising anchor also raises the front of the boat, the ship follows the coast by curving around it. On arrival, we see some local scenes: A penguin eats two fish, then is eaten by the third; the dogs of a dog sled stop (behind an iceberg) at a telephone pole; a timber wolf goes around shouting "Timber!" Two Eskimos rub noses: in preparation, the woman applies lipstick to her nose. Finally, an Eskimo nightclub (after all, the nights are six months long) features a rotoscoped ice skater. The ship leaves, and gets caught in the fog near New York; when the fog clears, we see the ship is perched atop the World's Fair Trilon.
Keywords: alaska, barracuda, cruise-ship, eskimo-indian, ice-skating, igloo, merrie-melodies, nightclub, penguin, rotoscoping