The Cock, the Dog and the Fox are of La Fontaine's fables, the dog is shown running in from the distance. La Fontaine's version of the fable has also been set by several composers: The Cock, the Dog and the Fox The Cock, the Dog and the Fox is one of Aesop's Fables and appears as number 252 in the Perry Index. Although it has similarities with other fables where a predator flatters a bird, such as The Fox and the Crow and Chanticleer and the Fox, in this one the cock is the victor rather than victim. There are also Eastern variants of this story. 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 ..."