Does anyone know how they did this? How could they prevent the dogs from not hurting the tiger or more likely the tiger ripping those dogs to shreads? Someone said it was CGI but that is stupid. The movie was filmed in the 1950's. Was it real?
shareI have often wondered myself but in those days there was little in the way of animal welfare or as we have in the Uk RSPCA (Royal Society for the protection of animals.)Still it was pretty realistic and did not appear to be a camera trick. Who knows ? This film is such a laugh though especially the race on the ostrich etc !!
shareIt's amazing what you can train animals to do. I know of bears they've trained to 'fight' with other animals in movies who never even gave their opponents a scratch!
Now I, for obvious reasons, don't know how trainable tigers are, but the dogs certainly could have been trained to do a fight scene without causing actual damage.
My dog chases my cat all the time and never hurts him. He wants to play.
The animals can be trains. Training the tiger would of course be more difficult as tigers are wild and dogs are dimesticated. However, circuses have been using trained tigers for decades and there is a good possibilty the tiger had been declawed.
I have not seem the film in year but it is in my collection. I will have a look for camera tricks. Although they did not have CGI there were many tricks they could do like combining frames and quick edits.
It could absolutely be real, dogs can be used to chase big cats, i once read an article from Sports Afield magazine that tells about a hunter using hounds to find and corner a wounded leopard he had shot the previous day. in the article the hounds wouldnt get close enough to hurt or be hurt by the cat, and the cat usually wont risk taking a swipe at one of the dogs lest it be attacked by the rest of the pack. Dogs can usually frighten a much larger animal with their barking and or size, Anatolian Shepard dogs are used to guard sheep, both in africa and Turkey. Anatolians are big enough to intimidate most big predators, and in africa that includes Cheetahs and Leopards. So yeah, the clip of the dogs and the tiger could be authentic
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The Rhodesian Ridgeback is used in Africa to hunt lions.
I was watching this scene with interest recently...it looks to me that the tiger featured in the ferocious close-ups, and the tiger shown being chased by the dogs, are two totally different tigers.
The one in close-ups appears larger and more powerful. The one running away from the dogs appears frail--I noticed that they were trying not to show too much of this tiger; you see it only briefly, in blurry "running away" shots or half-concealed by foliage.
It might have been de-clawed.
shareAccording to the director on the DVD commentary the scene was absolutely real. In fact, Walt Disney insisted there had to be contact between the dogs and the tiger. Similarly, the scene with the snake, which I presume used a fake snake with the boys wrestling with it? Nope, the snake was real. Tommy Kirk and James McArthur were told that everything would be fine as long as the snake's head was dunked in the water every so often. They were going to use doubles, but Tommy and James, intrepid young actors that they were, wanted to do the scene personally. Apparently James got little sleep the night before they filmed the scene. I can believe it!
shareOf the dogs vs. tiger scene. I agree the animal they are "fighting" is not the tiger we see in the other shots. But what are they fighting?
shareI always thought it was another dog painted orange with stripes added - it definitely doesn't look like a tiger.
shareI just watched this movie for the first time in 15 years (it's still awesome) and I noticed that the tiger did look a little small. Maybe it was an adolescent. Some of the "contact" shots looked a bit sped up as well, with barking and growling added later of course, so maybe the fighting wasn't at all as intense as the final product made it look.
Animals tend to look really aggressive when they're messing about, but they're not actually hurting each other. As a kid, my family went to a wild animal park and my sister and I were getting our picture taken with a young tiger. The tiger decided to play with my sister a little and wrapped its mouth around her leg, not intending to hurt her (she got the tiniest scratches and freaked out), just to mess with her. The tiger was also playing with a dog and from a distance it looked like they were trying to kill each other, but they were just having fun.
My 55-pound dog and I used to get into fierce play fights in the yard. She would chase me down and jump on me, growling and snarling like a maniac, and grab my arm in her mouth. The more I played along, the more crazy and vicious she seemed to get. If it had been filmed, it would have appeared as if she was trying to kill me. But it was all just a game. She never even scratched me.
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