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Dachshunds at the Movies...
1913 saw emergence of Dachshunds in movies as The Artist's Dream, also know as,
The Dachshund and the Sausage came to the silver screen.
1917, the B&W silent film Evolution of the Dachshund showed us the lighter side of our best friend.
1942, even a Humphrey Bogart did a movie with a Dachshund: it was All Through The Night.
Not only did Disney make a movie about Dalmatians, but he also made The Ugly Dachshund in 1966. Starring Dean Jones and Suzanne Pleshette, it features four trouble making (as if could be any other way) Dachsies and a Great Dane who thinks he's a Dachshund! Apparently the book has just been re-released and has a much better insight into the Dachshund characters than the movie does.
Strange but true... In the 1982 movie,
Deadly Eyes, contaminated grain breeds
overgrown killer rats and Dachshunds were dressed up as rats for the special effects.
In 1989 All Dogs Got To Heaven saw an animated Dachshund named Itchy provide the comic relief.
In 1990's Bonfires of the Vanities, Tom Hanks takes a reluctant standard short haired Dachshund named Marshall out for a walk in the rain at the beginning of the film.
The 1992 movie, Once Apon a Crime, a Dachshund is the center of the Plot. You see, the Dachsie is wearing a diamond collar... nuff said.
In Beethoven (the first movie) at the beginning when he is a puppy in the pet store, it shows a man and picking up a Dachshund puppy, and then it shows the same puppy a few seconds later, you have to be looking for for him to notice that it is a Dachshund puppy. Also 1992.
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Cyber Dachshunds?
Watch for Slink in the movie Toy Story. 1995
Watch for the Dachsie at the beginning of the movie The Truman Show. 1998
From 2000, the movie What's Cooking?, starring Julianna Margulies (of ER fame), gives us a look at Thanksgiving and a troublesome family get-together.
What
about Shrek? There's a Dachshund in the movie... Well sort of... In one scene, Princess Fiona makes a balloon wiener dog out of a snake!
2001.
In Shrek 2, while not actually in the movie, a game on the DVD asks what kind of dog Fiona receives from the Fairy God Mother. One of the multiple choices is a Dachshund.
A 2004 movie, Raising Helen features a Dachshund. Here's a screen shot of the dog. The dog is called Origami.
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In the movie
Manhattan (1979) starring Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, "Waffles" a
standard smooth Doxie belonging to Diane Keaton in the movie. Waffles is
seen in the house, being held during a conversation, and taken for a walk
during a date.
Have you heard about Chooch The Movie?
It's about a two cousins and their ill fated trip to Can Cun.
Looks like it packs a lot of fun! The dog star is called Kiwi
and
she has a song too. But can she
drive a tank?
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Watch for a new film called Mrs. Henderson Presents. I was a news story about it and I think I saw a Dachshund in it.
Dachshunds in Commercials and TV?
Dachshunds appear to be making in roads on TV and in the Advertising world. You can find Dachsies in such programs and commercials as:
That Seventies
Show, a dachshund has appeared at the beginning of the
show and appears to be the pet of the Foreman family.
At the start of an episode of King of the Hill, the regular gang were outside heckling an old man walking a dog. "That's not a real dog!" It was a Dachshund!
Bet you didn't know there is a dachshund on the Simpsons! Look for it in the opening credits as Bart skateboards along the sidewalk in town. But you have to be quick!
Norm MacDonald's TV show, simply titled Norm, featured a Dachshund as Norm's pet and he appeared regularly! The Doxie also appeared in show Promos with a mop tied to his underbelly and sent under the couch to collect dust bunnies! He was also featured in a episode where Norm was hiring him out for stud services at $200 per session to pay for a rare baseball card.
Did you ever watch Dharma and Greg? Well if you did, after they moved, in their new apartment, they once had an abstract picture of a Dachshund beside the front door and Mona Lisa painting.
Can't belive that I missed this. In 1972 Monty Python did a show for a German audience called Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus. In that show they did a goofy sketch version of Little Red Ridding Hood, a long haired Dachshund plays the big bad wolf!. This skecth is also seen in the movie Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl,
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Chevy Venture. A Dachshund follows a pack of other dogs to and fro and finally needs help to jump into the van.
Fido Cellular. During the Christmas season, a Dachshund was sporting a wrapped box as an overcoat. Lately we see a short haired Dachshund cuddling with his owner.
Cheese Please. The fellow in this commercial, while on his quest for Cheese (what else) crosses the path of a pack of wiener dogs.
Canada Trust. Can't remember where the Dachsie appears, but I did see it.
Volkswagen. A Dachshund suffers the rath of wind, ears flying about, as he sits in the back seat while the driver races from place to place.
In a Kodak Advantix System commercial a fellow appears wearing a bright yellow shirt with Dachshunds all over it!
I've seen a promo for CBC airing of the BBC program Coronation Street. In the promo and animated couple are watching TV and a Dachshund is at their feet.
I spotted bus-board advertising with a Dachshunds in it. The ad was for Reese's Peanut Butter Cups and the ad showed a shorthaired Dachshund with a bone twice it's size. A caption said "Good Together", the peanut butter cup was a "Better Together".
Jason Farabee
spotted a Goodwill commercial with a red doxie named
Brutus in it. Thanks Jason.
Dryel. A lady pulls a small sweater from a dryer and a dachshund is standing by. At the end of the commercial the Dachshund is wearing the sweater and walking away.
How about a TV commercial for Terminix bug service. The family in the commercial lives in an ice house to avoid bugs and a Dachshund is seen running, or should I say, sliding around a corner!
Priority Post. A Dachshund is seen following the man of the house. But the barking heard during the commercial is distictively not a Dachshund?
Clarica. The ad that shows a sign "Beware of dog", and the mailman looks in and sees one
dachsie. He goes in, then comes out with clothes all ripped up. The next scene shows him changing the sign to "dogs", and
scene shows
a whole yard full of dachies!
How
about a Progressive Insurance commercial? It features a
flooded house basement and a Dachshund is seen
floating on a piece of wood.
A Wire Haired Dachshund in a Ketchup Crispy Minis commercial. A lady in the commercial was threatening to put ketchup on him!
And in a TD Canada Trust commercial a man is seen racing to
get to the bank before it closes and while doing so he has to
jump over a Dachshund. It happens very quickly so keep our eyes
open.
Sprint, the telephone
company, has a commercial for their PCS Cellular
service. It starts out with a farmer who ordered 200
Oxen and got 200 Dachshunds because of the static on
his old phone. The commercial ends with him yelling
"Stampede" while the 200 Doxies run past him
in one mass wave. Hilarious !
Bet
ya didn't know that Wal-Mart sells a line of beauty/fragrance products from SARAH MICHAELS.
Their Vanilla Sugar variety once featured a dachshund wearing a black and red
checked jacket. Very cute.
Truly batteries at Zellers commercial saw a boy feeding food a Dachshund under the kitchen table.
There was a Woolite commercial, featuring small cartoons of people wearing clothing. One of the cartoons depicts a young woman wearing a pretty skirt (with the caption "Flirty Skirt" below it), which is blowing around in the wind. There is a little dachshund beside the woman, barking and chasing the skirt, its ears blowing in the wind!
John Martin says that in the
original animated cartoon series Jonny Quest from the 1960's,
there was an episode called "Shadow of the Condor" that had a
Dachshund.
It
was featured in quite a few scenes, one in which he almost got
picked up by a huge condor. To bad Bandit wasn't a Dachshund!
There's a Dachshund in the BBC Light Program called The Adventures of Toytown.