Seabiscuit: The lost documentary

Seabiscuit: The lost documentary

Seabisbuit : the lost documentary is another excisting documentary and also documentray film I am going to look at, it is an extraordinary piece of horse racing history. This ‘Lost’ original documentray was made in 1939 by SEABICUITS’s owner, Charles Howard, in honor of SEABISCUIT winning the coveted title of, ‘Horse-of-the-year’

In the documentary you see SEABISCUIT’s birth, his early life at the stables and SEABISCUIT’s first race where his fourth place finish earned him $50. You can also watch Charles Howard purchase SEABISCUIT after claimin race and trainer Tom Smith put SEABUISCUIR through workouts.

Expertly restored in the original black-and-white format, and explanded to include a vibrant colour version. The film stars Martin Mason, Doc Bond and Charles Howard directed by Manny Nathan Hahn and produced by Legend Films and distrubuted by Hart sharp video. This is a very popular movie/ documentary but again unlike my documentary this has a storyline and just focuses on one horse and focuses on the storyline bringing attachment to the audience, this film also contains a voice oevr which is unusual in most films but mainly because it is a documentary film having conventions of a documentray and a film. Also the film expandes over a massive time scale.

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The Little Horse That Could: The Connemara Stallion, Erin Go Bragh (CLIP)

The Little Horse That Could: The Connemara Stallion, Erin Go Bragh

Even Early Films did the same creating a film through a documentary for example.. The Little Horse That Could: The Connemara Stallion, Erin Go Bragh this is a documentary on a Connemara stallion eventing horse named Erin Go Bragh & his owner Carol Kozlowski. It details everything from daily care, to training to the unfolding of actual events. For horse lovers of all ages. Which was Published by Dreams Come True Productions on DVD. This is different to the diea od my documentray as mine would be seen on the one show and not made to be a DVD. Also it would include many different people in the documentray not focusing on one.

Here is the trailer for the movie...

Documentarys in films: The first Saturday in May.

Documentarys in films.

Recently documentray films are becoming increasingly popular, and there are many examples of this in the horse racing catogary. For example..

The first day in may released on the 18 April 2008 in the USA this film shows The Hennegan brothers following six trainers from varying parts of the country (Arkansas, Florida, New York, Kentucky) on their prime 2005 horses' journeys through various graded stakes to the Kentucky Derby. The film consists of both heartbreak and joy and close reltionships with the people within the film, making the audience form an attatchment with the charcters, make the documentray more effective. The directors of the film are Brad Hennegan and John Hennegan and also stars Frank Amonte, Barbaro and Peter Brette. The production company was the Hennegan Brothers.

Here is a clip to show you...

The diffrence between this industry is that in film documentarys they often have a storyline of a particular character or horse… making the film more personal and enjoyable to watch adding fiction to make the film more exciting. Turning facts into a story but with my documentary it would purley be the facts and maybe a little story on a particular persons experience in the racing industry.