Nature/Wildlife Wild Elephant Round-Up

1942 B/W MOS 16mm - Wild Elephant Round-Up TFA #43D 20:34:12 - 20:38:04 - The Adventure Parade, Wild Elephant Roundup - Sign "Service De Domestication Des Elephants". Westerners on horseback followed by elephants pulling wagons and natives, going thru low water, followed by natives on trained elephants. Elephants struggle to pull wagon up steep hill. Hunting party in tall grass, an elephant with rider pushes a tree down, carries away tree in its trunk. Clip campsite and bonfire at night. Morning, western man on horseback leads a line of natives with loads on heads. MS herd of elephants in woods. 20:38:04 - 20:47:22 - Westerner directs line of advancing crouching natives to surround elephant herd, native unpack gear, CU bundle of thick rope, wrap their legs with cloth, CU, rifles given to natives. Natives and man on horseback run at herd that starts to run away and party chases, MS young calf. Good clips as natives run with herd, one wraps rope around elephants' rear leg, around tree. Good series as elephant struggles and fights back, knocking down native with trunk, flailing trunk as natives surround and attach more ropes to its legs. Various good clips as struggle continues and more ropes are placed on elephant and around tree. Cu tree root being pulled from ground, he runs at natives bur held by ropes. Two tame elephants ridden to his sides and he is calmed, tied and controlled, then led away between the two. Hunting party crosses low river headed back to camp. Very good sequence clips of capturing a live elephant from a wild herd. The End.

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Clip #

3487_004

Location

Africa

Region

Africa

Date

1940s

Length

00:13:16

Color

B/W

Sound

Sound

Video format

Digibeta

Film format

16mm

HD format

4K

License

Rights Managed

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