Reynard the Fox feature film "Le Roman de Renard" (The Tale of the Fox) featured the Reynard character as the protagonist. The documentary film "" (1962) parallels Hitler's rise to power with the Reynard fable. Initially, Walt Disney Animation Studios considered a movie about Reynard. However, due to Walt Disney's concern that Reynard was an unsuitable choice for a hero, the studio decided to make Reynard the antagonist of a single narrative feature film named "Chanticleer and Reynard" (based on Edmond Rostand's "Chanticleer") but the production was scrapped in the mid-1960s, in favor of "The Sword in the Stone" (1963). Ken Anderson used
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 ..."