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Boy's best friend: Lee Aaker and Rinty look ahead to new adventures. him—will take part in a love scene as eagerly as engage in a fierce fight, depending on a signal or two from behind the camera. The original Rin Tin Tin was a spoil of World War I, a German shep¬ herd puppy abandoned by Kaiser Wilhelm’s troops in a French farm¬ house and brought home after the war by Lee Duncan, a 29-year-old American flier and Los Angeles sport¬ ing goods salesman. Duncan, now 63, says he decided to teach Rin Tin Tin I the tricks that made him famous after a reviewer for a dog breeders’ journal criticized the animal’s clumsiness during a dog show. Lavishing patience, affection and reward on his eager pupil, he soon had a pet that was smarter than the critic. A full-time professional dog trainer ever since, Duncan has followed the same techniques with all the subse¬ quent Rin Tin Tins. To teach a puppy to sit, for ex¬ ample, Duncan places him in a sitting position, instructs him softly to “Sit . . . sit . . . sit;” and holding a finger gently on his head to keep him still, circles slowly around him. Repeating this for several lessons, always prais¬ ing the puppy “from the heart” for trying, Duncan widens the circle un¬ til he can walk out of sight. “I consider the dog trained when he can sit for three minutes without following me,” he says. More difficult tricks, like fetching objects at command, sometimes re¬ quire special surroundings. Duncan trains dogs to fetch indoors in a hall¬ way where they can concentrate on the lesson without being distracted by intruders. He never uses a stick as the object, always an old shoe or something soft, and never throws very far. The fourth and fifth sons of the original Rin Tin Tin, used by Dun¬ can in the TV series, are both full- blooded German shepherds. Rin Tin Tin IV is four years old and used mainly with horses, scenes with other animals being his specialty. Rin Tin Tin V is 18 months old and fierce by nature. Being a virtuoso growler, he gets his workouts chiefly in fight scenes. The third dog assisting Duncan in filming the TV shows is Flame, Jr., 18-month-old son of Flame, a 10- year-old canine star of 36 motion pic¬ tures. Flame, Jr., responds intelli¬ gently and efficiently to either voice or hand signals from his owner- trainer, Frank V. Barnes, as well he might. Flame, Jr., is paid $750 a week. “He eats the steaks and I get the dog food,” says Barnes, who coaches him from the sidelines for an extra fee of $39 a day. 22