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Rustling Wolf Alsatians

I expect this was show stopper...

 

This is all I could find (which is I think a description of a Pathe newsreel item) :

 

Titles read: "Leaps and bounds [superimposed over C/U of an Alsatian dog] - 'Amongst the cleverest of dogs, the Alsatian stands high', says Mr. Hammond-Wright, whose 'Rustling Wolf Alsatians' are famous. 'They are apt pupils and pick up all sorts of tricks very rapidly.'"

 

Location of events unknown - probably London, Pathe studio.

 

Various shots of Mr Hammond-Wright with his four Rustling Wolf Alsatians in a studio. He gets them to jump over each other and through hoops. One dog guesses correctly three times which hand the man is hiding a coin in.

 

Mr Hammond-Wright puts some some coloured handkerchiefs and flags in a line on the ground and asks one of the dogs to pick out the Union Jack; the dog does so. The man then gets the dogs to bark when he asks them to speak. Two of the dogs then take turns to jump over an 8-foot barrier - one of them nearly gets stuck.

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Uploaded on October 9, 2006