fburton
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Utterly fascinating thread.
Yes, and yes. Actually that is our greatest "use" as we do a lot of historical consultation (again, not just horses) for TV and film. Drives me mad when they get it wrong.
A lady at my yard when I was a teenager had a lovely big grey horse called Solomon who was in The Madness of King George ridden by the main character I think. He was a lovely big softy.
If you watch here at 8.39 I think that is him!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wdRQlJ4kvI
"Reign of Fire"
We don't do carriages ourselves any more, but our "carriage guy" supplies most of what we need, and we can adapt to suit, or hire specialist vehicles in (usually from Hungary or France). It is massively expensive, though, so production companies often don't bother and just use whatever is to hand (anybody see "Tudors"? We most definitely DID NOT work on that!).
Not done anything Roman since "King Arthur"; we try to work "at home" as much as possible, so limited to whatever is filming in Ireland these days.
At least he recognised the picture. My show hunter won at the Counties at few years ago and the pro picture was a lovely one. Duly bought it, framed it and put it on the wall at home.
The following year the show did it's normal advertising in newspapers and on flyers put on cars and lorries at other shows. I pulled the flyer off our lorry windscreen and said to my friend " look at that, lovely horse wouldn't mind owning that".
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Oops at least your consistent .
Yes now you mentain it is good he recognised it.
However he was at the same fence we have his shot of it in the loo and remember the photographer being there because they had a short chat just before Oh legged it to the next fence he could get to.
You start out with a divided screen and just ask them to ride between the two halves, then gradually bring them closer and closer together and increase the pace. Could take a couple of months of very patient training, and not all will do it, but once they learn to break the sugar (stunt glass is very thin panes of boiled sugar) with their noses it's pretty easy after that. One of mine would hurl himself at any window if you weren't careful, so subsequent training has included teaching them NOT to go through the real ones!
Turned down a horse fall into deep water; didn't like that, but the horse that did it was a specialist diving horse and happily did it all day long. That was his only job though; he didn't do anything else.
When I was a kid a photographer came to the yard and borrowed 3 of us to take our photo riding through the village. Gave us a pound between the three of us and we thought nothing of it.
It turned up on calendars, birthday cards and a jigsaw which I still have.
After The Incident......
A combination of prosthetic horse head (i.e. a dummy), CGI and make up. Not my horse, all the featured/actor's horses are supplied by the Devil's Horsemen/Gerard Naprous.
Sorry, I was pretty disappointed myself!You've just broken a thousand people's hearts, I think Desert Orchid is ugly
I was wearing jeans but no hat in 1980, so pretty far from typically English rose on her pony!