Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Let follow this here, now that we are on another subject our non pontificating expert John Milton is very versed on
Johnny,
No kidding. They were too heavy to move without a crew. And you couldn't use prop boy's like you can with heavy elephant tubs. What is your point? When you sit "one" up on a pedestal, roll "one" over, and bounce the rest, you don't need the space or training skills that you need to "sit" 16 up on the ground,(did he have one that didn't sit up on a pedestal?) or roll 8 over, or walk 3 on their hind legs(did he have any?) or imagine "corbetts"(I know he didn't have any.) If you understood animal behavior, to reference bouncing a lion as feline training, you would realize it would be the same as referencing a bucking horse as horse training. And those rodeo cowboys are incredible trainers.
But Beatty is an excellent example of how wild animal "training" has advanced to today. Elephant training has pretty much stayed the same, but horses alas, have deteriorated. So sad.
Wade Burck
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Buckles,
There is one of those flat plated lashes Roger Smith mentioned some time ago. Lou Reagan used them also, and you don't see them anymore. Lou liked them because the could lay the whip on his shoulder, to move props and it stayed on better then a round lash.
Wade Burck
23 April, 2008 08:23
I am sure that us that are old enough remember him just like this photo.
23 April, 2008 08:52
Wade, Beatty never moved any furniture.
23 April, 2008 09:0