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Howard Bramhall wrote:
The sad thing about the movie is they had almost as many dead horses as
they
> did Yankees, lying there in the battlefield at Fredericksburg. 


In WW1 the average horse lived 4 days on the battlefront if I remember
the number correctly.  The Canadien horse was nearly made extinct from
its use as a cavalry mount and war supply horse.  

The happy side is that due to breeding efforts there are again several
thousand from the few hundred left after the wars.

Do you think the dead horses in the film were perhaps "animated" such as
the feather in "Forest Gump" and the change of seasons in "A Beautiful
Mind".  There is a lot of animation in today's films - "Lord of the
Rings", "Harry Potter" etc.  Much of it is so intertwined with the
"real" film" it is hard to tell what is what.  My son works for a prop
company.  They computer cut whole people, boats - whatever you want -
out from styrofoam blocks, paint them and they are really hard to tell
they are not real when filmed.

Reality and fantasy are hard to distinguish everywhere these days.


Wayne Delbeke

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Lazy ED Bar Canabians (Canadien Arabian Crosses)

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