Real Life Footage Of Elsa The Lioness

[EMILYKEIFERCASANDRA]

BELLISIMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[AMY1213141]

The kid hit the lion :(

[AMY1213141]

So I'm guessing the kid and the cub didn't get on

[maddog988673]

Wow... I'm only 15 yet born free is my fave film ever... I used to watch it so much when I was around my nans... And I still love it now ...

[gyfre888]

Wish Elsa would have still been alive now!

[fietsvriend]

Was Elsa named after Elsa Tingulstad or after her daughters Ellen and Sonja van Hall? Does anybody know?

[fietsvriend]

@fietsvriend According to Mrs. Hilda van Hall in Amsterdam,Elsa the Lioness is named after Elsa the wife of Maurits Cornelis van Hall

he married her at Ancón (Panama-canallzone) 21 march 1932 Elsa

Dorothea Margarethe Davis (name Tingulstad by

adoption by mr. H. P. Davis changed in Davis), born.

Drobak (Norway) sept . 19th 1906, daughter from Aksel

Tingulstad and Helena Margarethe Ebeltoft.

[misselsa1959]

This was the first hard backed book I read years ago when I was 12, I have since watched the film lots of times. Thank you for sharing this video it has made my day x

[jennishark]

Beautiful, thanks for sharing.

[9bahai9]

Thanks for sharing! I had a wonderful, wonderful German shepherd named Elsa, after Elsa the lioness. My mom named her that because her large paws looked like lion's paws. The bond I shared with her was beyond measure and it tore me to pieces when I had to put her down about a month short of her 13th birthday. She had a disorder shepherds are prone to in which the nervous sytem in the hind quarters deteriorates. She finally reached the point she could no longer walk so I had no choice.

[mirakal786]

Thank you for this awesome footage. I am from Kenya and it really reminds me of my home.

[1adityabhosale1]

my dogs name is elsa

[hyphera]

I am reading the book "Born Free" in my class. Also, I think this music goes very well with the footage. Mike and the lions are so cute! I watched this video during class.

[goldeneyesofafrica]

Thanks.... :)

[Georgia2307]

This is really a terrific video. i liked the movie Born Free so much and I loved the theme song

[pamelala95]

This footage touched my heart so deeply after watching Nature's program on the Adamsons and Elsa. As they say on the show, Born Free and Elsa's story shaped my love of animals, wild and domestic. Thank you for putting this on youtube, it's really magical.

[tothgabor100]

Thank you!

[bagpussarah]

This is so beautiful. Thank you for uploading it.

[petulia67]

This video really captures how fleeting happiness is. Achingly sad...

[Barbrad714]

Lovely footage! Thanks so very much for posting this. I will show it to my students who are studying Christian the Lion and Elsa, George and Joy.

[gracemelodia]

What an amazing and valuable video, thanks!

[henleyisgod]

Beautiful....I love it!

[bellabecka2You]

I was lucky to see up close (really close up) 6 tigers and 1 male lion (caged) and they are so majestic....Seeing these little cubs reminds me of how big they will become. Sad to think that these majestic animals are sometimes caged and sent to zoos or for circus's, but I guess better than being poached which so many are unneedessly for greed! They are such gorgeous creatures from wherein the domestic housecat derives from. Thanks for sharing!

[newberry58]

• In 1980 Joy Adamson was murdered. The brutal killer was a servant whom she had suspended after he was found stealing.

• On August 20, 1989 some European tourists were attacked by Somali bandits and savagely beaten and robbed. George Adamson went to their rescue, he was shot twice by the bandits - once in his thigh and then in his back - and died immediately.

[pamelala95]

@newberry58 Actually the program I saw yesterday indicates that he came to the aid of a solitary visitor who was being beaten by poachers. This story, from Nature, indicated that George was shot multiple times, with the entire lower part of his face gone. This story was told by an eyewitness, and judging from the photos of his ravaged car, I imagine its true. Still the end result is the same, and we still have poachers murdering today.

[showtuneful]

So beautiful. Human baby and lion baby at play.

[portinaribe]

K U D O S  . . . !

[rameshbabu1969]

Wonderful !

[filipjanik87]

Whose idea was it to play Buffy and Angel's theme for this? :)

[kayleighmckagan]

@filipjanik87 It was my idea, but it was the only piece of music on my computer that was the same length as the video lol.

[andrewjones1977]

@kayleighmckagan and it goes well with the nature of these animals

[ron3il]

i jus have to comment again, i cant stopping this watching this clips it so sad its make me cry.. who ever killed Joy adamson should go to hell, if she was here world would have been place with Lion been friendly to humans and we would have able walk in the Park intead of driving a land Rover there

[ron3il]

joy adamson enjoy every moment of her life with elsa

[LolaRunsAustin]

Thanks for sharing this video. If you'd like more information about George Adamson and are on Facebook, please visit the page I've created in his honor. It's titled The Father of Lions: George Adamson. Enjoy.

[AnimalLoveBug101]

i am reading the book right now and love it

[JuliaAnnDickson]

i wish you didnt have to put sad music :( Im ready joy adamsons book, wild heart, and when elsa died i cryed like heck :( Poor elsa i luved that little girl!

[mistytinker13]

look into the story of Ace and John who raised a lion cub called Christian the lion, then returned him to the wild and went to visit him a year later, the reunion between them is on youtube all over, and it is also a true story.

[transimmunology]

Biblical reference. But then, why not?

[transimmunology]

Sorry, Michaiel is the lamb!

[transimmunology]

David is the lamb; Elsa, the Lion.

X

[amulla86]

i cant watch this it make me cry.....

[DonChilenito]

Beautiful video.... to bad we Humans are so violent, even so we are intelligent but you can aslo say we are the dumbest of all aswell.. the world have to know hoe inportant animals are and how beautiful they are!. Elsa is showed the world that we all are born free and deserve to be free! made the world cry for her story!

[tshan1504]

Elsa,  Joy, George Forever !!!!!!

[transimmunology]

The most beautiful thing I've ever seen,. The way it should be. I so wish that all children had that opportunity.

[AfonsoVazPinto]

(1:39 Great moment...) Unique video. Thanks for sharing. Do you have more? Cheers

[vtfcynthia]

Just sad that they were all killed by Kenian Savages......the son is alive & trying to help..... people leave Africa...they are Never thankful!

[Nikoz7Makaveli]

who where all killed by kenian savages?

[kayleighmckagan]

@Nikoz7Makaveli Both of the Adamsons were murdered by poachers. Thats what makes their story so sad :(

[jake03251261]

@kayleighmckagan this is not true. they weren't BOTH killed by poachers.  Joy was killed by a disgruntled employee.

[newberry58]

@kayleighmckagan

• 1980 Joy Adamson was murdered. The brutal killer was a servant whom she had suspended after he was found stealing.

• August 20, 1989 some European tourists were attacked by Somali bandits and savagely beaten and robbed George Adamson went to their rescue in his land rover. He was shot twice by the bandits - once in his thigh and then in his back - and died immediately

[newberry58]

@newberry58 ~ 21 yrs ago George Adamson was murdered ..

[solo19971]

@kayleighmckagan ...wrong : only George did.

Joy was killed by her Somali servant.

[solo19971]

@kayleighmckagan George poachers he faced alone gun against 5

Joy at her Shaba Camp by a servant...

This things happen in Euroope every day...don't blame Kenyans..., and they ARE NOT SAVAGES!!!!

[solo19971]

@Nikoz7Makaveli not only in Kenya people are killed...SAVAGES ARE ALL OVER THE WORLD...Read newspapers and see!!!!!

[LovelyThingsDude]

Thanks a ton for sharing this Rare Video.

Great People,Great animals and great relations

i thanks god for everything

[dearmalika]

Esta pelicula original es un documento

tan precioso ! Gracias por compartirlo

con los demas! Es tan interesante!Me

gustaria saber mas sobre Elsa y los Adamson!

Thank you so much!

[armidalicorne]

Ir a google y despues Wikipedia. Hay mucho por leer sobre los Adamson, y varios enlaces.

Suerte. Gente como estra es de lo mejor que haya vivido en nuestra tierra !!

[jagib2]

looks like the little kid is hitting on the cubs.

looks like humans just got to put some kind of hurt on the animals. maybe this is why the animals grow up to be so violent.

we humans show them how.

[MarenSchlumpf]

Animals aren't violent, they kill to survive - humans are the violent species

Yes, the little boy was hitting the cubs but they were hitting too. If you watch it again you'll see that's how they play. Noone got hurt I'm sure

[mcra080908]

priceless !!! thanks a million for posting.

[Grifiki]

Simba Toto's...

[vqbornfree]

Amo a Elsa y su historia...desde que era niña ha sido mi pelicula favorita la que se hizo de ella.

[cgordonjr]

Precious. Thanks for posting.

[NatureGirl62]

T H A N K  Y O U

[Belgusto1]

Precious!!!

[Kevvo4444]

I can still remember my mum and auntie taking me to see Born Free when I must have only been 6 or 7 . I silently cried all through the film but it left a deep inpression on my life.

[pamrai01]

So beautiful,wonderous what love can do, thank you.

[kayleighmckagan]

its called Close Your Eyes and it's on the Buffy The Vampire Slayer Soundtrack

[bongojava21]

My first time to see footage of the real Elsa. I barely remember my parents going to see "Born Free" when it was released. I saw it on television as a young child a few years later. For 40 years the story of Elsa has remained with me. Beautiful, poignant video.

[tunia63]

Beautiful, I cry every time I watch Born Free, thanks for posting!

[kabubine]

this vid is full of pure love and beauty - it's amazing

[iwtfy]

If you look closely towards the end you get a quick glance of Patti Patti, the Rock Horax, who also befriended Elsa. Others have said it but it's worth saying again: the clip is both beautiful and haunting

[skittlepower95]

i agree it is almost scary or hard to watch

[hashpuppy101]

its not allowed to house exotic animals anymore is it?

[clod8]

The Dad was a park ranger in Kenya, so these animals were not pets but rehabilitated into the wild. I think their mom was shot by poachers.

[skittlepower95]

goerge the park ranger shot the mum and dad of elsa because they were killing goats in the village and they found cubs which were elsa big one and i cant remember the other cubs name

[Thamnophissirtalis]

They were not killing goats they were killing men.

[prengezh]

nice... thanks ya Allah..

[daniredde]

Grazie per aver inserito queste immagini in ricordo del grande George Adamson.

[gurthang66]

WOW

[isobelpaloma]

It's called "Close Your Eyes" on the Buffy The Vampire Slayer Soundtrack Album? Many Thanks.

[raghuvendrasingh]

Amazing video! thanks for uploading it!!

[isobelpaloma]

(Novela: Joy Adamson) asesinada por cazadores furtivos en 1980. Nacida Libre, 2 oscars en 1966. Basada en la historia real de la leona Elsa y sus cuidadores.

[bffeae27]

ay una pelicula ke se llama elsa la leona de dos mundos????

[kentdta6]

Who is willing to protect our wildlife and have the courage to do so? We all need to look for insperation from George and Joy Adamson. Please stop the killings.

[stevelewis3]

The start of a wonderful story. Problem is how do we protect wildlife now. Start a war with somalia??? don't think so....

[juliebugs1]

thank you thank you thank you so special and a joy to watch, you have made my day

[mb1968ca]

Beautiful video. I had never seen real film of Elsa and her sisters, only pictures. Thank you for posting it.

[nathaniel9897]

Beautiful. It manages to feel both heart-warming and haunting. Thank you for posting this.

[brangiefan]

Thank you for sharing this precious footage.

[xummij]

Truly beautiful and utterly awesome. What lovely memories Michael must have - how sad if he was too young to remember!

[digitalbroadcaster]

Sorry everybody, I've just read the post below saying what the song is.

Perfect music for this moving footage though. Kayleighmckagan has done a wonderful job of adding this and the music (if she did add the music).

[digitalbroadcaster]

I've just got to find that music! Arrrrrrgh! Such a brilliant piece. Anybody know who composed it etc?

[digitalbroadcaster]

So haunting. Very very haunting. What music is it? Or did the music come with the film? Thankyou very very much for posting this footage. I had Born Free when I was a very young child and the pictures always made me cry when I read that Elsa walked a few yards and died. Hey, I was only eight!

[meniosgomenios]

Words cannot describe this beauty...

thank you very much for this excellent video

thanks a lot to great people such as George and Joy Adamson

Greetings from Athens-Greece :)

[Elleisinthebuilding]

Oh my name is Elsa :).. Cute vid:''D

[ExplosiveCobra]

Beautiful video but it sure looked like Elsa was trying to take a bite out of that baby!

[iwtfy]

beautiful, beautiful, beautiful...what a find to know that this footage of the acual lioness from "Born Free." Brings tears to my eyes

[calisurfnturtle]

I can't believe I'm watching the actual Elsa, Joy, and Patti! I read the book so many times throughout my life that I've had to replace it with a new copy several times. To see them as they were is amazing to me. Thank you so much for posting.

[NatureGirl62]

Tears are pouring down my cheeks, so I think I should log off now.

[Nibbit]

What is that beautiful song playing? It's so moving and adds to the atmosphere of the footage. Lovely.

[kayleighmckagan]

The song is called "Close Your Eyes" it is on the Buffy The Vampire Slayer soundtrack album.

[Nibbit]

Thank you very much! :)

[NatureGirl62]

Tears are streaming down my face. Thank you so much for posting this wonderful footage.

[lynnetteoxo]

this movie makes me cry just like the movie....its amazing

[stevelewis3]

astounding and wonderful. The start of a magnificent legacy. Thank you George, Joy, Elsa, Boy,Girl, Christian, Katania, Terrance, Super cub and more..

[kimmilil]

thank you so very much for posting this. The story of this incredible lioness and her human family inspired me so very much and I have kept it close to my heart through the decades. My youngest daughter has Elsa as a middle name in honour of this lions beautiful soul... forever in my heart :)

[kancilpandai]

they are so cute!save them

[Wolfie238]

What a rare find this is. Thank you so much for sharing these special clips with us.

[tuktukskagal]

I cannot thank you enough for this clip.I remember Elsa

bringing the cubs to show to Joy and George.This is awesome;but then;Elsa was a very special lioness;with an

amazing bond with the Adamsons.

[delaghettojr]

the baby n baby lion so cute

[newbfk]

Thanks for the updated information on this video footage, it's a great piece of Elsa video history.

[pathduck]

Wonderful, thanks for putting this up!