Trained Cavalry Horses (1898) User Reviews

Horses lying down, standing up

[rbverhoef · 6/10 · 2 August 2006]

This short film from the Edison Manufacturing Company shows, as the title pretty much sums up, some trained cavalry horses. We see them lying down, stay there for a short while, before standing up again. During this action men from the cavalry stay on the back of the horse.

From its first film the Edison Manufacturing Company has produced over a thousand of short films. The most famous is probably 'The Great Train Robbery', considered to be the first western, even though it was shot in New Jersey. The Brothers Lumière and Georges Méliès did their part in developing the cinema in France, Edison and later D.W. Griffith were their American counterparts.

As for the single shot films from the Edison Manufacturing Company, they are all historically interesting. For some reason those from Lumière have a higher entertainment value, if that's what you should call it, but that does not mean they are more important. The Edison Manufacturing Company's short films existing out of multiple scenes belong to the highpoint of American cinema.

Horse Training

[Michael_Elliott · 8 December 2016]

Trained Cavalry Horses (1898)

This here is another film from the period that isn't ground-breaking by any stretch of the imagination but it does offer us a glimpse into a moment in time. This one here is exactly what the title says. A group of men are training some horses that are going to be used in the Spanish-American war. The footage lasts just under a minute and features a group of men training the horses including getting them to fall down and then get back up. If you're going to watch these old movies then it's going to be because you enjoy seeing things for how they once were. We've seen countless movies from Hollywood where cowboys are trying to break in horses but what we get here is real and authentic.