Above is a Nazi propoganda movie with the original soundtrack filmed in 1944
Below is a movie taken in 1945. Note the short shot of Patton. This tape was taken a year after the one the Nazi's filmed above, after Patton and the U.S Seventh Army and the U.S. Third Army had kicked Nazi ass all over Italy and France before taking a break in Bastogne then continuing on to liberate Pilson and Bohemia. He would have taken Prague, except Eisenhower shut him down.
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Beautful Vintage Lipizzans--Spanish Riding School
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Wade G. Burck
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I think on the first video of SRS shows much more knowledge on the mechanics of Piaffe and Passage then compared to what I have seen from there now. Couple of them were too fast but the other single horses were great. Great Corbett's on the one horse, looked like Ostermaier's. I liked seeing all the horses doing passage big or small it really looks nice. So not all of it has been passed down even at SRS
Dianne,
That is amazing. I noted the exact same thing. I also noted they were riding with a shorter leg back then and not as long as they ride today. I wonder if some of their quality has been sacrificed in a rush to "get it ready for the show" with correctness not being an issue, or a lack of skilled riders. Their Corbett's have always been superior in the past. Aren't old video's/pictures honest and telling?
Wade
I think more the fact that the old trainers didn't pass on "All what they knew" or that the students weren't all that receptive. A lot of times they will continue on for years with the Master Horses, learning how to ride them but not necessarily how to train them. I remember Albert telling someone that he didn't show me everything he knew. Maybe it's an ego thing.
Dianne,
I don't buy that. I think it is more a commentary of the general "climate" of shows today and the public who go to them.
When I was finally lucky enough to go to Vienna the school and the stables were closed for a month, but the gift shop was open and doing a brisk business. In the hall way across from the gift shop were some incredible "shadow box" displays. Historic lithographs, saddle pads and an original SRS finished spade bit, with the Hapsburg double headed Eagle emblems on each side of the cheek half way between the shank and the purchase. The gift shop was lite up, clean and busy, yet the boxes with the history had dirty windows, and the lights were burnt out in half of them. I couldn't even see well enough to estimate how tall the port was, or how many twist's there were on the bar. And that sucked.
I think in Podhajsky's day they were striving for respect and salvation/funding. Now that they have that, it is about just getting in the show, tradition be damned. Col. Podhajsky was probably able to spend a lot of time in the school training and instructing. Today's administrator probably hands a lot of that off to subordinates, so he can spend time doing important things like making out the days off, vacation days/sick days list, checking to see who has requested an appointment with some grievance board, or meeting some VIP for a cocktail. I'll bet even as early as the 70's when you went to the SRS for a performance, you didn't give a damn if you had a SRS pennant or a pair of logo SRS glove's from the gift shop. Of real value and importance was a world glass performance complete with incredible airs. But even when Roy Rogers got old and his voice was not the same, he was still Roy Rogers, no matter what.
Wade
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