The Cock, the Dog and the Fox the cock a jazz club performer and the protective dog a bouncer. There is a carving of "The Cock and the Cat" from the Bharhut stupa, dating from 150 BCE, which is now displayed in the Indian Museum in Calcutta. Aesop's fable can be found on household china in Europe, but it is not always clear whether the story of "Chanticleer and the Fox" is meant instead without the appearance of the dog as well. The dog occupies the foreground on an 18th-century ornamental dessert dish from the Chelsea porcelain factory, while in Marc Chagall's 1952 series of etchings, which
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 ..."