The Magic Lantern Gazette - Library

The Year of the Pig 7
Pigs Unlimited
The pig has been a prominent player—hogging the limelight—
in the magic lantern show world. These are some of the pig
tales that I have seen:
The Peasant and Pigs
The Precocious Pigs
Three Little Pigs
Head Long Career and Woeful End of Precocious Piggy
Three Tiny Pigs
Uncle Jonathan and the Pigs
The Loitering Schoolboy and the Little Piggies
That Pig of Simon's--Simon and his Pig Story
Hans and his Pig (very similar to Simon and his Pig)
The Pig's Gratitude (also known as The Wandering Pig)
The Pigs and the Sugar Barrel
The Anti-Fat Medicine (featuring an overweight pig farmer)
Puck and His Pig and ensuing sequels (by Dick Moore)
Pigs in Action
Pigs commonly appear in lever slides and slip slides used to
simulate motion. Some of these were made by many different
manufacturers and therefore appear in different versions. A partial
list of pig motion slides is given below.
Boy or man fall off of a pig (one with a knife and fork in hand)
Pulling the pig's leg
Pig under a butcher's arm
Pig under a Scotsman's arm (see p. 23)
Attempting to butcher the pig with a knife (the pig usually wins)
Switching the chef's head and the pig's head
Spectre Pig
Female cook and switching heads
Woman and pork pie--nose bite by the pig
Pig on a leash, being switched--looking for truffles (if you
are a pig lover) or going to market (if you are not a pig
lover)
Spectre Pig. Lantern slide art by Joseph Boggs Beale.
Pigs escaping from a cart (they are known to be smarter
than most animals)