Thursday, February 28, 2013

Oldest Falconry Film?

I have the Craighead film of their months with an Indian prince just before WWII, which is not unlike having films of Emperor Frederic in Medieval Sicily, or of being able to step into the print of Vadim Gorbatov's "Kublai Khan's Hawking Party" hanging to my right. But this short film, made before the first World War in Algeria in 1909, and sent by several readers, may be the oldest hawking ever filmed if not the most elevated (a friend cracked "just like you guys-- throwing (implying "wasting") peregrines at bunnies". Brief saluki glimpses too...


1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Fantastic---but I wonder if those salukis are REAL SALUKIS, or just "lurchers"(ahem!).....L.B.