To rope a grizzly - Mutual of Omaha Wild Kingdom.

[Warden Callaway]

I loved these shows.  

 

 

[Dantankerous]

Quite entertaining. Couple things don’t add up but I won’t question them here. It’s nice to see something with absolutely no CGI but my big question is how on earth did Stan do all of that barefoot? 

[Larsen E. Pettifogger, SASS #32933]

I quit watching when Marlin Perkins croaked.

[Warden Callaway]

OK, the dowgs are up for a fight with the grizzly.  The guys are stupid enough to rope it.  But I can't figure the horses not bolting and return to the barn.

 

Here is where the are fighting a giant anaconda in the water.

 

 

 

[Rip Snorter]

To me, when Marlin was alive, the things Jim Fowler got himself into were both hilarious and often scary.

[Trailrider #896]

I think what they needed was a team roping bunch. That way, one would lasso the head and the other would rope the grizz's hind legs, then stretch him out.

Marlin's herpatology expert was a man named Lear Grimmer. My mother went to school with him, and he was always coming around with frogs, toads, snakes, etc.  When I was in eighth grade, my mother subbed for one of my middle school teachers. Because the sub was announced the previous day, some of the kids thought to scare her by putting a rubber snake on her chair. I laughed and told them it wouldn't work because of her having been around Lear Grimmer!  

[Sedalia Dave]

9 hours ago, Dantankerous said:

Quite entertaining. Couple things don’t add up but I won’t question them here. It’s nice to see something with absolutely no CGI but my big question is how on earth did Stan do all of that barefoot? 

 

 

[Warden Callaway]

Made me think of local history story.  In our town was an old black man that may at once been a slave.  But he became the village brick maker.  He never wore shoes - winter or summer.   He became a prominent business man of some wealth and prominence in the community.  The historical society ran a little article about him.  A picture of him in pin striped suit but with pant legs rolled up and barefoot. 

[Pat Riot]

“Grizzly roping was a regular event in the Old West” 

 

That bear that chased Stan up that tree sure didn’t look as big as the one they roped. 

I used to love that show when I was a kid. I recall later in life seeing reruns and realizing some of those daring things they did really didn’t match up. I think at some point in high school I learned about film editing and staging things to appear dangerous or scary for effect, though many of the things Jim did were dangerous and scary. 

 

[Warden Callaway]

1 hour ago, Pat Riot said:

“Grizzly roping was a regular event in the Old West” 

 

That bear that chased Stan up that tree sure didn’t look as big as the one they roped. 

I used to love that show when I was a kid. I recall later in life seeing reruns and realizing some of those daring things they did really didn’t match up. I think at some point in high school I learned about film editing and staging things to appear dangerous or scary for effect, though many of the things Jim did were dangerous and scary. 

 

 

I suspect they filled in with stock footage taken by wildlife photographers.  Then took shots of them behind a bush pointing.   A hundred years ago a just married Kansas couple took off on adventure to Borneo, deepest dark African and such filming wild people and animals.   They would come back every so often and tour the county showing their film and giving lectures - collecting money for their next safari.  Stock footage often showed up in movies.  Massive herd of elephants,  wildebeest,  monkeys,  native dancing,  etc. Then cut to Tarzan swinging from a tree.

 

 

 

 

 

[Warden Callaway]

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