People Hunting with Cheetahs, India 1939

[norris53589]

Damn nature u scary

[biGpoppapimp1]

OMG!!! that is the coolest thing i have ever seen...lol...that's beautiful and true harmony between man and nature

[Indiancrab]

cool

[magycspeed]

ogarii sunt apa de ploaie :))))

[q8kickboxer]

يا سلام شيء ولا احلي

[vincent66132]

cant believe people can live so symbiotically with the cheetahs but unfortunately all humans got greedy and selfish so i feel bad for these animals that depend on us to save them but we are ignoring it

[zenenmoro]

not being racist but dont those guys look stupid lol

[Indianwoodsman]

@zenenmoro oh no, i can't believe you went there!

[sukhoi1992]

my grandpa used to hunt wid cheetah .... in rajasthan this tradition was dre in RAJPUTS .

m proud to be a rajput .....

[seifkarawia]

where can i watch the whole movie ??

[SolidGaby]

those cheetahs are well trained

[zuzihh]

How's amazing...

[manjeshalex]

oh these Indians..... really great video...thx4sharing

[werowokomoko]

interesting irony... the prince and cheetah are long gone from India but the black buck managed to hold on...

[godessbast]

Great footage! Thanks for posting!

[shakya2cool]

how color?

[lablah9]

Now they are EXTINCT :(

[lycodon]

Amazing Documentary....its indeed a very very rare video!!!

[crowhawk]

Excellent film quality. I once read the book about the Craighead twins visit to India. (I'd love to get hold of a copy again) Sadly now the Asiatic cheetah is extinct (at least in the wild).

[kazakhseven]

@crowhawk The Asiatic Cheetah has gone extinct not just in India but in Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan. There are recent reports of afew left on the Pakistan/Afghanistan border. The only place where maybe a hundred survive is in Iran. Its very sad.

[FallingandRunning]

This is pretty cool. I feel lucky to find a video showing how it was done.

[Defekcija]

I love how these people live and work with animals.

[harshLesson]

wow thank you so much for sharing such an interesting clip with the world. I would love to watch the rest of this movie. where can i see it?

[stuge234]

do you have more such videos to upload ? its unfortunate that cheetah have extinct from India :(

[MrPatrick31]

this is very cool

[elshamri]

Thank you for this video which is unique and priceless. This is amazing and would like to know if it is offered for sale whether colored or B&W.

Please send me an email or your contacts.

Regards,

الشـــــــــــــــــــامري elshamri

[rtperch]

Thanks for sharing this footage: it's truly amazing! You can definitely tell the influence that falconry had on the training/hunting techniques used with these hunting cheetahs. It's too bad that no one does this anymore, as all the knowledge is now gone and it could have been very useful in animal husbandry for zoos keeping cheetahs and attempting to breed them to increase the cheetah populations through releases back to the wild.

[subjectofthecrown]

These must be the now critically endangered Asiatic cheetah, aka Iranian Cheetah... beautiful cats indeed; it's a shame there are so few left.

[rohan00009]

there are now 18 cheetas in gujarat in gir snctuary and in 5 years time they are set to increase by 40... they have recently intruduced them in wild.after 75 years they will roam the ploanes in india with leopard,lions,tigers,bears and now cheetas.

[CirqueDuCloud]

Wow, my jaw dropped on that last chase scene! I couldn't believe how fast those two animals were running. Looking at "70MPH" as only a number doesn't do the actual feat any justice.

Seeing it actually happen is outstanding.

[sailordoc2007]

Recommended reading for anyone who would like to learn more about the cheetah in the Indian subcontinent - ' The End of a Trail - The Cheetah in India' by Divyabhanusinh (Oxford India paperbacks)

[kohjack06]

why are they blindfolded??

[themastergeek]

Once the Cheetah hunts down the buck, the assistants/helpers rush to the spot and blind-fold the cheetah.

They do so, as the cheetak won't leave his kill otherwise. They blind fold him, cut a piece of meat from the kill and feed it to the cheetah (still blind folded). Once they remove the blind fold, Cheetah thinks that he has eaten what he killed, while actually he just ate a leg.

[paulporthcawl]

excellant , thank you very much .. loved it ,, just wish the indian government could reintroduce these superb animals !!

[tigresslover]

I would have loved to visit India in that age.

Very lovely video I might add. Thanks for sharing.

[khattak3]

im stun.were color cameras invented in or b4 1939?

[bouju1]

@khattak3

The first movie cameras came about during the end of the 1800's.

Just for reference, "Gone with the Wind" and "The Wizard of Oz" were released in 1939.

[sevendeadly69]

@bouju1 yes but not in color

[bouju1]

@sevendeadly69

I believe the first real experiments with color filmed happened in England around 1906. A 2 hour silent feature film called "With Our King and Queen Through India" was released in Kinemacolor in 1912. "The Wizard of Oz" was one of the early "Technicolor" films.

[jungleman62]

@khattak3 There are technologies to "colorize" film shot in black and white. Not sure if that's what was done in this film.

[sasukeAMVcreator]

Days with Asiatic cheetahs are gone (still only about 20-60 wild ones left in Iran).

[mj897]

Great video. There are still lions in india, around 300 in a gir forest gujrat and the asiatic cheetah is still living (just) in the iranian desert, unfortunately they have weak immune system and it was disease that killed them off and not man. Diplomatic efforts to reintroduce the cheetahs to the indian plains from iran are as yet unfullfilled.

[iamlumin]

Man is the primary reason for the crash in cheetah numbers in recent years and for the localized extinction in India. They are difficult to breed in captivity so they use to only take the adults. They essentially loved them to death and of course, removing huge numbers from the wild had a devastating impact.

[giriisindahouse]

@mj897 that's bullshit. A disease won't kill an animal that was once widespread all across central India and Pakistan all the way to the Arabian region. It may be one of the reason but obviously there's a bigger one. By merely looking at the video above, you could easily tell how lowly cheetahs were treated those days. Besides, everything precious was hunted during the British era. Nothing was spared.

[ryan110001]

@giriisindahouse Lets thank the British and the dumb Indians in doing such a great job in wiping a species of a major part of a continent.

[socopatel]

HENCH NO CHEETAHS......

[syedakbar77]

Amazing, i always heard about this. But this is truly amazing. The best part is the video quality. Lovely

I cant thanks enough

[americansharpy]

The Craighead brothers, well-known falconers and wildlife biologists.

[InTRuD3r86]

nice

[terabin1]

Gone are those days and with it, these cheetahs in Asia.

[abdulbade]

amazing, unfortunitly there are no cheetas in that area, god help tigers and leprd

[xplosivelilly]

@abdulbade the cheetah is returning to india...they're planning to import cheetahs from south africa and release them into sanctuaries. However it's not the same subspecies as the ones featured here. This subspecies is only located in Iran about 100 individuals. But at least now india has back one of it's native cats :)

[bballercheetahfan3]

amzing video! thanks for sharing!

[hopploponeus]

Thanx!!! just seen pictures of Indian cheetah.......

[MeaghanEdwards]

Amazing! I've only heard of this in books, never in film.

[unclewaltsoup]

Great video!

[energetic23]

thanks for sharing this valuable documentary.... if have more of same please do post them.

cheers

[nastykurtbadboy]

where the western entered, destruction resulted.

[rj232222]

4:41 Tiger is enjoying it by eating the food

[annaaalok]

this video touch my heart....thanxx for sharing...

[qeeeees1]

شسالفه

[qeeeees1]

طلع الامير السعودي مهايطي

طلع في نا س قبله

ومسوي ضجه اعلاميه بو الشباب

ههههههههههههههههههه

[everjim]

amazing

[johnxxx9]

Cheetahs will be back in India by 2015!

[Cayala]

Why do you say that? there is only a few ASIATIC cheetahs left in the world. the rest in AFRICA

[matchless10000]

dude there is not even a single cheetahs left in INDIA thanks to the british!

[TimmyGal]

There are NO Asian cheetahs left. They were killed off 60 years ago.

[sushanalone]

@TimmyGal yes thats true

[vsingh100]

wow.

[31jeslin]

India's ambitious plan to clone the asiantic cheetah or the so called indian cheetah which went extinct from the indian soil in 1962 due to largescale hunting, has run into a dead end.

As iran which was first willing to participate in the project declined its offer lately to loan a couple of its asiantic cheetas to india or allow a team comprising members from the ministry of environment and for........read my next comment tooooo........

[killakiran]

great stuff, thanks for sharing

[matindavoudi]

Why do't they use guns

[bouju1]

I would imagine because this, similar to falconry, is the essence of hunting. There is much more sport, and uncertainty of the outcome, in having a trained wild animal chase down its quarry as opposed to simply shooting game.

[derbyhits]

anyone can carry a gun

it takes a real thug to carry a cheetah

[bouju1]

ha ha!

[786Baloch]

haha for real man. This wat makes you the Boss.

[TheGREATEST95]

@derbyhits funniest quotes ive heard all week

[scyther123123]

well done,

great upload.

[Cayala]

AMAZING RARE FOOTAGE THANKS SO MUCH.

[Cayala]

wow this was just cool beyond belief thanks for uploading i know it's been said but, this was just GREAT! FOOTAGE.

[downriggershop]

Utterly fascinating! Thanks so much, for uploading.

[lmohanarengan]

Thank you mr.bouju1 for the reply and details.

what i meant is the old movies of that period what i have seen dosent flow like this. I have no doubt about the content or period 'cause what is the point in meddling in such a footage. (no bachans or khans!) Hope you understand now.

With high regards,

mohan, tumkur

[samkot66]

What a surprise! It is unbelievable to see the cheetahs hunting in the Indian subcontinent. It is a precious record on bygone Indian cheetah. Thanks for sharing.

[barbaryhawking]

unfortunately already at that time the Indian cheetah was extinct, in the book "Life with an Indian Prince" the Craighead Brothers state that the cheetahs were imported from Africa for the sport

[sailordoc2007]

@barbaryhawking - You're probably right about the cheetahs. By the early 1900s, the Asiatic cheetah in India was already so rare in the wild that the Maharajahs had begun to import African cheetahs for their blackbuck and chinkara hunts.

[lmohanarengan]

Nice and wonderful .

But I'm sorry - is the clipping mdernised? It dosen't look like a  old movie or the technology was there?

[bouju1]

I believe this footage is all original. The narration was done some years after everything was filmed. I'm not sure what you mean by "clipping", but the cuts between scenes appear to be consistent with traditional splicing techniques. The jittery motion of the film looks like old films I have for my 8mm and 16mm projectors. Even the use of color film (first used in 1935) is appropriate for this time period.

[tvnmurthy]

It is really amazing footage, the entire past is depected well and filimed

[sailordoc2007]

This truly is an amazing and rare video...many thanks for putting it up here

[cage2004]

great footage

[sdgupt]

where did u get this clip frm? Amazing

[bouju1]

This came from an old falconry film called "Life with an Indian Prince". There are still a few copies of it floating around out there.