"Stuff is eaten by dogs, broken by family and friends, sanded down by the wind, frozen by the mountains, lost by the prairie, burnt off by the sun, washed away by the rain. So you are left with dogs, family, friends, sun, rain, wind, prairie and mountains. What more do you want?" Federico Calboli
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...
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Fantastic---but I wonder if those salukis are REAL SALUKIS, or just "lurchers"(ahem!).....L.B.
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