Metadata
WORK ID: YFA 1963 (Master Record)
Title | Year | Date |
FRICKER'S TRAINED ALSATIANS | 1945 | 1945-01-01 |
Details
Original Format: 16mm Colour: Colour Sound: Silent Duration: 14 mins 10 secs Credits: Photography and Continuity by Norman Ellis Subject: Education |
Summary This is a film giving demonstrations of dog training and handling in the mid-1940s. |
Description
This is a film giving demonstrations of dog training and handling in the mid-1940s.
Title - Fricker's Trained Alsatians
Principals - Chas E. Fricker, Mabel Fricker, Arthur Sciafe, Frank Thornton
Kennel Attendants - H. Fricker and C. Fricker
Photography and Continuity by Norman Ellis
Intertitle - The Kennels and training establishment are situated in the Borough of Pudsey, surrounded by beautiful country.
The film begins showing the countryside around Pudsey, before showing the kennels...
This is a film giving demonstrations of dog training and handling in the mid-1940s.
Title - Fricker's Trained Alsatians
Principals - Chas E. Fricker, Mabel Fricker, Arthur Sciafe, Frank Thornton
Kennel Attendants - H. Fricker and C. Fricker
Photography and Continuity by Norman Ellis
Intertitle - The Kennels and training establishment are situated in the Borough of Pudsey, surrounded by beautiful country.
The film begins showing the countryside around Pudsey, before showing the kennels and three female dog handlers who walk the Alsatians around the compound to heel before grooming them. They are given some food in bowls, followed by five puppies who feed voraciously. One of the trainers gets one of the dogs to lie down.
Intertitle - And now for a display by the following wonder dogs. Introducing - Simone of Cliffwood, Crumstone Prudence, Kuno of Vendor, Royston Eagle
Each of the dogs are shown and introduced. On a large open space a handler works with two dogs, the first retrieves a bucket, and another, an egg. A dog jumps through a hoop held by a handler.
Intertitle -Heel Obedience
A dog works closely to heel and then jumps over a high fence and jumps through a burning hoop.
Intertitle - Retrieving a vital document form a wounded soldier, under fire.
A soldier lies unconscious on the ground whilst one of the dogs crawls to the injured soldier and retrieves a document from inside his jacket. This is followed by a dog climbing up and over a high ladder, the second time blindfolded, and then leaping over obstacles.
Intertitle - The Attack
There is an enactment of an assault, whereby a man attacks another in a field and ties him up before stealing his wallet. The man who is tied up manages to crawl to two dogs tied up nearby. One of the dogs chews through his bindings, and he sets off in pursuit with the dogs. The villain fires a gun but the dogs attack him, while the other man grabs the gun and arrests him.
Title - The End
Context
An intriguing look at the training of police dogs as they climb up ladders blindfolded and rescue documents from wounded soldiers.
Made just at the end of the War in 1945, this film of renowned dog trainer Charles Fricker of Pudsey reveals the training that Alsatian dogs would have received for war as well as for non-combative work for which they would usually be trained. Fricker puts the dogs through their paces for warzone situations, being attacked, fetching buckets of water, and going...
An intriguing look at the training of police dogs as they climb up ladders blindfolded and rescue documents from wounded soldiers.
Made just at the end of the War in 1945, this film of renowned dog trainer Charles Fricker of Pudsey reveals the training that Alsatian dogs would have received for war as well as for non-combative work for which they would usually be trained. Fricker puts the dogs through their paces for warzone situations, being attacked, fetching buckets of water, and going up and down a ladder blindfolded. The latter perhaps more for the benefit of his own travelling dog show. Charles Edward Fricker worked from the start at the Royal Air Force Police dog training school at Woodfold, established before the war by Colonel Baldwin, later becoming the Chief Training Officer. Fricker worked as a Bevin Boy during the war and afterwards established his own kennels and dog display team, as seen here, which performed before the Royal family in 1948. He later introduced the Annual Working Dog Efficiency Competition. German Shepherd dogs were used by Germany during WW1, and introduced here in 1919, being renamed Alsatians to avoid the German association. They were not re-classified back until 1977, the year after Fricker’s retirement, having subsequently been bred to a bigger size. |