Elephant dance (1937)

Page scan 000135 from Elephant dance

Record Details:

Title:
Elephant dance
Date:
1937
Publisher:
New York : Charles Scribner's Sons
Volume:
Elephant dance
Leaf #:
000135
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
Something wrong or inaccurate about this page? Let us Know!

Thanks for helping us continually improve the quality of the Lantern search engine for all of our users! We have millions of scanned pages, so user reports are incredibly helpful for us to identify places where we can improve and update the metadata.

Please describe the issue below, and click "Submit" to send your comments to our team! If you'd prefer, you can also send us an email to mhdl@commarts.wisc.edu with your comments.




We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.

Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.

The wild animal is so strong that it took five of Wild Tusker these ships' cable ropes, from his hind legs, his fore ^aPturc legs and neck, to hold him, and the ends of the ropes were wound round and round the middles of the five cows. The two cows attached to his hind legs faced backward so as to act as brakes. And so the poor gallant was led from his trysting place, a captive. Now we had in our captured tusker, of course, an extraordinary film property. And we hastened to make the most of it, while the poor creature was still rebellious and fierce and before he should have become reconciled. We had written into the story a scene for Kala Nag, very tentatively, for we didn't know how we were going to get it short of — well — very quick cutting of action staged with a tame elephant. As a matter of fact we had been experimenting with this scene, and, to use my husband's pet expression, been 'sweating blood'. Elephants are so incredibly slow and deliberate in their movements — so willing and intelligent, but so . . . deliberate. A tiger is a bundle of perfectly obvious ferocity — snarling lips and gleaming fangs and blazing eyes, lashing tail; he is the classic jungle villain. But what can you do with an elephant? — his little eyes, waving trunk, funny behind, silly tail, and a bulk that at any near distance appears on the screen simply as a blur of grey hide. For filming in action he 9i