Equus “Story of the Horse”…
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/equus-story-of-the-horse-about/16877/
Thanks!
We need to keep this bumped up, so those that are interested can see it.
That looks great! Thanks for the tip. I’ve marked my calendar.
It’s a 2-part series.
Here local PBS will show it on consecutive Wednesdays.
Literally made myself a note so I don’t forget.
Thanks! Just set the DVR.
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Bump. The Nature series is fabulous. Thanks for the heads up!
Us Canadians got to see that last fall - CBC Nature of Things.
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Bump, not long now.
… and it is starting here!
I watched it and loved it! Thanks for the reminder!
Yes, a different take on that from history, still very informative.
Will see what the second part will be all about.
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Watched & enjoyed… except for the 15min I dozed off (never go horizontal to watch TV).
Loved the animation of the Eohippus skeleton & the bit at the end with gentling the 2yo was fun to watch.
Although it did make me wonder how much was edited. as the buckskin horse was pretty sweaty…
Still the QH acting along with the trainer to work the colt was great.
My PBS station either changed the time, or I misread - it was on 1h later than I thought.
But that allowed me to catch up on the Doc Martin episode I’d missed on their Prime channel.
I missed it :no:
I watched the first part, I won’t go back for the second.
Maybe if I had never seen or interacted with a horse in real life, I might have thought the show was interesting. But as a horse owner myself I found the narrator’s equine “discoveries” to be naïve to say the least. (Wow, I had no idea that horses had facial expressions! And that they actually interact with people! And that they are social animals!)
I also thought it was funny that almost every “expert” he consulted was described as “legendary”. Umm, not in the real world. It was entertaining to see several people I knew pass by. But beyond that, even my only mildly horsey husband–who was made to watch the show with me–was rolling his eyes.
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If it has a horse in it, I’ll be watching. I didn’t mind that the host was not knowledgeable about horses because he was making a film for the masses, not us ‘horse people’.
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Well, we loved it. I thought some of the photography was beautiful. For those that missed it - PBS here reruns the Nature series. You can likely go to their website to see the schedule. We look forward to Pt. 2.
It was interesting.
The first half was kind of “woo-woo” and the constant attempts to turn the horse into a romantic symbol of all that is Good, True, and Beautiful really flies with those who are In Love With Horses. For those who love horse and clean stalls, well it might be a bit over the top.
The segment with cowboy in CO was likely the most interesting as I saw some very practical things, as well as some stuff that photographs well but in the hand of an average horse owner would get people hurt. He had the mandatory “Parelli carrot stick” in the round pen. Then did “Buck Branaman” with a rope an other horse. He was clearly a good hand and pushed when a push was indicated and backed off when that was indicated. He used his very well trained saddled horse as a training aid with the three year old youngster he was working with and he used it well. The guy was good, but I’m not sure he was “legendary.”
Overall this was a piece made for the general public, not for people who were, or were aspiring to be, horesemen/women.
I’ll watch part 2.
G.
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I thought it was terrific. I watched it this morning on my on-demand service.
Loved the Eohippus animation, and I thought the biomechanics part from the racetrack was fascinating. I also was very interested to see how different horses had the same expressions in reaction to the pictures of people’s faces.
And of course the cowboy colt-starting at the end was the best.
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My husband finally had an idea of what I had gone through with baby horse after watching the buckskin. From feral animal to useful citizen. (just took longer for us).
