101 Dalmation( 1961) Divus Crewel x Oc

chapter 1

Pongo: (narrating) "My story begins in London, not so very long ago, and yet so much has happened since then, that it seems like an eternity. At that time, I lived with my pet in a bachelor flat just off Regents Park. It was a beautiful spring day, a tedious time of the year for bachelors." 

Roger is seen playing the piano and writing some notes on the sheet.

" Oh, that's my pet, Roger Radcliffe, a musician of sorts. I'm the one with the spots."

Pongo is then shown resting on a couch by the window.

 "My name's Pongo. As far as I could see, the old notion that a bachelor's life was so glamorous and carefree was all nonsense. It was downright dull." 

Pongo leans up on all fours and stretches while yawning. He watches Roger smoke his pipe and continue practicing, as we then see Roger's living room with discarded music notes across the chair and floor and a cello in one of the seats.

 "It was plain to see that my old pet needed someone. But if it were left up to Roger, we'd be bachelors forever. He was married to his work, writing songs. Songs about the ance of all things, something he knew absolutely nothing about. Oh, he's intelligent enough, as humans go. And I think you could say, Roger is a rather handsome animal in his way. I could see no reason why my pet didn't deserve an attractive mate. At least I was determined to do my best."

Pongo stares at a cover of one of Roger's pin-up magazines and pushes it aside with his nose.

"Of course, dogs are a pretty poor judge of human beauty." 

Pongo then looks at the cover of Roger's Lilliput magazine issue depicting a sexy blonde in a green and pink swimsuit against a blue background.

"But I had a rough idea of what to look for."

 Pongo sees a shaggy Saluki and her beatnik human pet walk to the park. 

"Hmm! Unusual breed. Very unusual. Hmm! Oh, surely not.''

 He then sees a small, stout pug and her similarly dignified human pet walk in the opposite direction.

"Well now, what have we here? Hmm. Well, a little too short-coupled. Nope!"

 A purple-colored poodle with black-haired bangs and her sophisticated owner pass by.

"I say! Well, I do say! Now there's a fancy breed. Hmm. Perhaps a little too fancy. Yes, much too fancy."

 A cocker spaniel and her elderly owner ride along on their bicycle.

"Too old."

 A little girl in yellow and her yellow labrador puppy walk down the street.

"Too young. It was a problem, a real problem. Well, now that's a bit more like it!" 

Pongo sees their ideal wives: An identical Dalmatian with a blue-collar named Perdita and her human owner, Anita.

"The most beautiful creature on four legs! Now, if only the girl-Well! She's very lovely too. It was almost too good to be true."

Anita and Perdita walk to Regent's Park.

 "I'd never find another pair like that, not if I looked for 100 years. Ah, they're heading for the park. A perfect meeting place if I can only arrange it. Uh-oh, but Roger never stopped work 'til after 5:00. That would be too late."

Pongo sets the clock hands five minutes after 5:00 with his nose, rushes to Roger's study, and prances and barks at Roger to get his attention.

Roger: "After 5:00 already? Fancy that." (He puts on his trench coat and trilby hat.) "All right, Pongo. All right, boy." (As soon as Roger puts the leash on Pongo, he takes off, heaving Roger through the front door. The scene slides away to see them traveling quickly through Regent's Park.) "Pongo, boy, take it easy! What's all the hurry? Pongo, boy, slow down."

Pongo looks around the area and sees the pug from recently barking at a few pigeons to chase them away. Then, the two bachelors. cross a bridge past Saluki and her master painting this scene of the park. Pongo the continues

Pongo: (narrating) "I was afraid we'd missed them. Perhaps they passed on by the park. Then, suddenly... I spotted them."

 As told, Pongo sees Anita reading a book on a park bench with Perdita sitting next to her.

Pongo: "It was a perfect situation if I planned it right. I couldn't depend on Roger. I knew what he'd do. He'd settle on the grass, puff his pipe and that would be it." 

Roger sits on the bank of the Thames River to look at the scenery with Pongo sitting next to him.

 Pongo: "No, it was all up to me. Well. At first, I had no particular plan, just anything to attract attention. You know, stir things up a bit."

Pongo goes ahead and grabs Roger's hat

Roger: "Pongo, you silly old thing!" 

Pongo playfully crouches down on all fours and leaps away.

Roger: "C'mon! C'mon, let's have it, boy. Pongo! Pongo!"

Perdita and Anita look at Roger and Pongo fooling around with little amusement, as Roger retrieves his hat.

Pongo: (narrating) "For a while, it seemed to work. At least they had seen one another. Things were going along first-rate." (Pongo looks at Roger and then looks at Anita back and forth until he does a take.) "But, for some strange reason, they left!" 

Pongo sees Anita and Perdita returning home and tries to make a break for it until Roger pounces on Pongo to stop him.

Roger: "C'mon, you old renegade. We're going home."

Pongo: (narrating) "But I wasn't giving up. I was determined that somehow they just had to meet."

Pongo heaves Roger and forces him to meet Anita just in time.

Roger: "Oh!"

Anita: "Ohhh!"

Roger: "I beg your pardon. Please excuse me."

Anita: "I must say, what on earth!"

Pongo is overly focused on his goal, that he accidentally ties their legs up with his leash.

Roger: "Oh. Good heavens."

Anita: "Oh, dear."

Perdita becomes alarmed at this and tries to free her mistress by holding onto her coat with her teeth, only to make things worse.

oger: "Ohh!"

Anita: "Ahh, ahh!"

Perdita accidentally rips off part of her mistress' coat, as Roger and Anita lose their balance and land in a nearby pond.

Roger: (groaning) "Oh, oh."

Anita: (disappointed) "Oh, my new spring suit and my new hat! Ah, ah..."

(Anita stands back up, followed by Roger.)

Roger: (pleading) "I'm sorry. Please let me help you. I'm so sorry. I don't know what's come over him." 

Pongo looks at Perdita and tries to apologize for humiliating himself and Roger, but Perdita turns away from him out of disgust.

Roger: "I'm so sorry. He's never acted this way before."

Anita: (irritated) "Please, just go away! You've done enough. Please?"

Roger: (hands her a hankie) "Oh. Oh, I say. Here, take mine."

Anita: "Oh."

Anita and Roger share a laugh, as Perdita looks at Pongo lovingly. Pongo's plan of getting Roger to meet Anita works, as an iris shines on him, which turns into a stained glass cathedral window. Both couples are now at the church getting married.

Priest: "Wilt thou love her, comfort her, honor and keep her in sickness and in health; and forsaking all others, keep thee only unto her so long as ye both shall live?"

Roger: (solemnly) "I will."

Pongo and Perdita lean into each other, touching their noses with one. A few months later, they all settle down at a nice flat just near the park.