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Elephant’s Baby (1958)

Reel Number: 221516-06

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1958

Country: India

Location:

TC Begins: 02:58:14

TC Ends: 03:08:07

Duration: 00:09:53

Elephant’s Baby Encyclopaedia Britannica Films main title missing Camera moving thru jungle, elephant baby and mother called by boy. She trumpets, has bell around neck. She comes w/ baby. Elephant baby nursing, boy climbs up onto mother elephant and rides back to village. 03:00:15 Elephants moving teak wood, lift and push it. Pull logs with large bull elephant and rope. Father riding bull elephant. Boy rides elephant and baby follows into stream. Other elephants bring logs into river. Elephants bathed in evening, mother and baby back to village. Elephant classroom of small pen where five-year old elephant being moved into it by older elephant. 03:03:35 Inside it gets food, is chained to a post, tries to throw off rider. Given bananas to calm it down then another rider attempts. A few weeks later they train it with a teak wood block, pushing it down on command and up on another, then done w/ rider. 03:05:57 Elephant eating outside hut. Elephants going to tiger hunt from lumber camp. Beaters with drums, tiger moving through grass, comes towards elephants, tiger is shot. Elephants back at work. More shots of elephants, river. The End Animals; Training; Trained; NOTE: Any one continuous minute sold at per reel rate.

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