Chanticleer and the Fox it clear that its inspiration was Edmond Rostand's drama "Chantecler" about a cock that believed the sun would not rise unless it crowed first. Several other works claim to be inspired by Chaucer's tale but, like Rostand's play and the 1990 cartoon feature film Rock-a-Doodle based on it, have little connection with the original Renart Cycle version beyond using the name Chanticleer, or variants of it. Chanticleer and the Fox Chanticleer and the Fox is a fable that dates from the Middle Ages. Though it can be compared to Aesop's fable of The Fox and the Crow, it is of
Cock of the Air photography for "Cock of the Air" took place first from mid-September to early October 1931. The primary location for the production was the Metropolitan Airport in Van Nuys, California where the remaining aircraft from the earlier "Hell's Angels" (1930), a total of 14 World War I-era and later aircraft, were assembled. In order to recoup some of the investment made in "Hell's Angels", Howard Hughes decided to recycle some of the sequences and unused footage for a pair of comedies set in the air, "Sky Devils" (1932) and the "Cock of the Air". "The picture contained little air action ..."