Comments on: British dog shows in 1938, 1953 – and Deerhounds!

By: Gina Spadafori

Gina Spadafori — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:57:08 +0000

Some dogs were very similar in appearance now and then, but you must not be looking at the same Pekes who were running that steeplechase course as I was.

The Crufts Best In Show footstool that couldn’t even sit for pictures without becomin life-threateningly overheated didn’t look much like the dogs in the video.

By: LC

LC — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:50:55 +0000

Wow great find - what I found really interesting was the similar phenotype to dogs today, we read all this hype about how breeders have changed breeds so much recently and that is why we have so many health problems in (purebred) dogs today but the peke’s and cavaliers in those videos don’t look larger or have longer muzzles than dogs today. I just expected to see Peke’s with long muzzles, and giant bulldogs but they look the same as I saw at show two weeks ago. Very interesting !

By: Anne T

Anne T — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 10:29:20 +0000

What a greyt site! Found a 1926 film of the 91st Waterloo Cup! Tallyho!!!! Thank you, Christie!

By: Gina Spadafori

Gina Spadafori — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:56:36 +0000

Bless Mrs. Phipps-Hornby, her sensible shoes and her clever groundskeeper who no doubt put that racecourse together for her!

By: Christie Keith

Christie Keith — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:36:50 +0000

ROFL Dee… that is PRICELESS.

Is this the greatest website ever or WHAT?

By: Dee

Dee — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:10:32 +0000

Thanks for the great link.

Who says Pekes can’t move? They even race, greyhound-style:

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=1770

By: straybaby

straybaby — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 20:54:25 +0000

Comment by glock — July 18, 2009 @ 9:01 am

lol!~ I did the same search! I was impressed by this woman and her ‘herd’ of Dals:

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=19262

By: Barb

Barb — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 19:38:45 +0000

That is an awesome site! Thank you Christie!

Nice to see Pekes (quite obviously Pekes too) who could breathe and move, and GSDs who weren’t crippled.

I typed in Great Danes and found other footage, including a video of an obedience training school where the dogs were doing high jumps and novelty things like jumping over a table with a family of 4 seated at it, complete with plates and tableware! :-)

By: The OTHER Pat

The OTHER Pat — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 18:54:45 +0000

Someone needs to do that horseback photo as a painting!

By: Eucritta

Eucritta — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 16:28:57 +0000

There’s some old footage of cat shows too, which highlight Persians and Siamese. From the 1930s through the 1950s, back when both of them were substantial cats.

And as a bonus …? They’ve got a silent short of Louis Wain!