Elephant dance (1937)

Record Details:

Title:
Elephant dance
Date:
1937
Publisher:
New York : Charles Scribner's Sons
Volume:
Elephant dance
Leaf #:
00086
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
July 11, 2024
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Film problems with them ill the elephant dance. If we could only operate the cameras from elephants' backs in the jungle! We have to get the wild elephants moving through the forest. Our script demands also that we get two tuskers fighting. The fight can be staged in the mating season in September, says our Jemadar. Wild tuskers will be decoyed into an area trenched around by a four-foot trench, an insuperable obstacle to an elephant, because he cannot span it and cannot jump. The decoys will be tame cows, and that the fight will ensue is, according to everyone, a foregone conclusion. If the tuskers are equally matched it will be a great show. Prince Jay a has already spoken for a front seat! Monday. Recruiting One more day in camp to see the elephants swim the Key tne riVer and to talk with the Jemadar. The Jemadar is the chief of mahouts of the Kakankote camp, the best The trainer of elephants in the country. We have had Jemadar qUite a t^me negotiating for him. He will be an important person for us. We have to depend on him to make the elephant do the things we want, and to teach him a trick or two besides. You remember the Jungle Book picture, where Kala Nag holds Little Toomai up in his trunk? We have seen no elephant and heard of only two who are supposed to be able to do that. But the Jemadar says Lakshmi Prassad, the 58