Chanticleer and the Fox the question of its origin. It has also been asserted that the tale has developed out of the basic situation in Aesop's fable of The Fox and the Crow. Early examples of the story are pithily fabular but towards the middle of the 12th century it appears as an extended episode of the "Reynard cycle" under the title "How Renart captured Chanticleer the cock" ("Si comme Renart prist Chanticler le Coq"). The work of which it was part was immensely popular and spread widely in translation. The basic situation concerns the cock Chanticleer, who lives with his three wives in
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 ..."