Staring Clint Eastwood. Any one know where the footage of that giant bull ele is from? Yikes

It's Abu from Abu's camp in Botswana owned by Randall Jay Moore who also wrote the book 'Elephants For Africa' & he was wearing prosthetic/fibre glass tusks.

Abu was a great character & would charge at the sight of a camera & skid to a halt at 'point blank range' & then turn & saunter away.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...hant-dies-at-44.html



Clint Eastwood's co-star Abu the elephant dies at 44


By Our Obituaries Staff12:01AM GMT 23 Dec 2002


Abu, who has died at Okvango Delta in Botswana aged 44, was perhaps the most famous of all African bull elephants.
After his appearance in Clint Eastwood's White Hunter, Black Heart, he was much in demand for commercials and for carrying distinguished visitors on safari.
He was born in Kruger National Park, South Africa, in 1960 and sold to a dealer in Texas who ran a safari park.
At the age of 31, he was sold to Randall Moore, a conservationist who specialises in retraining elephants bred in safari parks, circuses and zoos to survive in the wild.
Abu returned to South Africa with Moore and starred in the film Circles in a Forest. On location in the Knysna forest, he proved adept at learning complicated routines, including "rescuing" an actor from drowning.

When the film was complete, Moore proposed staying on in the Knysna, using Abu and other elephants to find and link up with a herd of wild elephants living there.
The South African authorities rejected the proposal, so Moore moved to Botswana to start Africa's first elephant-back safari venture in the Okavango. Abu quickly established himself as the centre of attraction, as well as the reliable father figure to the 10 other elephants who joined the herd at Abu Camp.
His acting talent meant that he was in great demand for feature films, documentaries and television commercials. After a spectacular charge scene in White Hunter, Black Heart, he became known in Hollywood as "one-take Abu" for his ability - not shared by many human actors - to get the scene right first time.
He became internationally recognised through a commercial for ISM, a computer company, in which he was seen to help a young elephant traverse the sand dunes of the Namibian desert to the tune of the Hollies' hit, He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother.
Abu suffered a severe leg injury four months ago in a confrontation with a wild bull. The injury forced him to put all of his weight on his other front leg, which led to a fatal heart attack. He weighed five tons.

Abu complete with his falsies:

Nice pic!

She doesn't look like she has falsies

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Originally posted by Rockdoc:
Nice pic!

She doesn't look like she has falsies

Hard to believe they're fibreglass hey?

But that's life!

Joking aside, she's a famous (German?) model but I'm not sure why she's famous except perhaps as a toast rack.

Awesome picture, where is the elephant?

My understanding is that the hunting scene where filmed in the Omay

Ah Hollywood, thanks for the background

SOMEBODY needs some tities

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Originally posted by ozhunter:
My understanding is that the hunting scene where filmed in the Omay

I believe it was filmed at Kariba.I spoke with someone who worked there and met the cast.

I'm going from memory but think Moore talks about filming that charge in his book 'Elephants For Africa' which is a very good read with some simply fantastic photography in it.

As for where the charge was filmed, I'd guess Kathy's post is correct because Abu's Camp is where Abu lived but it's not impossible he was moved elsewhere for the movie.

either way, it's a great piece of film.

I have two original posters signed by the Horace Glem and his book with those pictures

If I remember correctly Abu was at the old International Safari Park at Grand Prairie between Dallas and Ft.Worth, and when Moore made the deal for Abu, I believe he also made a deal on the tuskless African bull we had at the Ft. Worth Zoo and took it to Africa at the same time.

The OP is referring to a scene with an elephant the characters are trying to hunt, not the 'charge scene'.

The hunt scene features a bull with really long tusks down to the ground. This was a wild bull that lived on the shores of Kariba around Matusadona, I'm lead to believe.

I remember reading that the film was shot in Kariba and Luangwa (one scene with some female elephants)... however the 'charge scene' would make sense for Okavango delta.

Quite an underrated movie, and some nice quality firearms (Holland and Holland doubles, Mannlicher-Schoenauer etc.)

those DON'T look like falsies (on the girl) but hay, who knows...just another reason I prefer wood to fiberglass..a woody beats falsies any day..

BTW, that was the dumbest movie I ever watched, another liberal approach to our sport of hunting.

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Originally posted by Black Lechwe:
The OP is referring to a scene with an elephant the characters are trying to hunt, not the 'charge scene'.

The hunt scene features a bull with really long tusks down to the ground. This was a wild bull that lived on the shores of Kariba around Matusadona, I'm lead to believe.

I remember reading that the film was shot in Kariba and Luangwa (one scene with some female elephants)... however the 'charge scene' would make sense for Okavango delta.

Quite an underrated movie, and some nice quality firearms (Holland and Holland doubles, Mannlicher-Schoenauer etc.)

That is in fact the ele I was wondering about. Thanks for the response. Hunted the Omay next to Matus a few years back. Didn't see any that big!