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Planning the with twenty elephants. Four miles beyond that in the Keddah forest were the ditches, post holes and rotting timbers of the old keddahs still standing.
Just how we finally came to the decision, I don't know. It seemed to grow out of the circumstances. That magnificent wild herd such as had hardly been seen here before; the old keddah sites, so easy to reconstruct, all there; the forestry organization just ready to be set in motion; and, above all, the certainty of getting our pictures in this way as in no other — all these things conspired together. We decided to have a keddah, a real keddah in the traditional style; to call all the villagers from miles around to make a small army (1,100, actually) of beaters, to pair these with jungle men, and to call out the forest officers to captain this army: to build the stockade and runways — an engineering feat of timber (10,000 pieces) and rope (9 tons); of digging and chopping and hauling — with hundreds of carts and all the work-elephants engaged. It sounded like a tremendous undertaking for just a film. A keddah is staged in Mysore only after many months' of preparation and only for one most important occasion — the visit to Mysore of a new viceroy or of royalty.
The habits and seasonal movements and runways of the elephants are well known, and the keddah operators take account of these. The river runs through the
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