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Uploaded by on Jan 14, 2012

December 2011: War Horse Location Farrier Brendan Murray Interviewed by Samantha Clark for War Horse News and The Hoof Blog (Hoofcare + Lameness Journal)

Napoleon once said that an army moves on its stomach. But the cavalry moves on its hooves, and it took an army of farriers--called "shoeing smiths" by the British military--to keep the horses moving in World War I.

But what about a film crew? And what about the production of Steven Spielberg's War Horse in England in 2011? DreamWorks Pictures learned the importance of a farrier too, especially when Roger, a plow-horse lookalike for Joey, kept pulling off his shoes in the furrow. And director Spielberg put location farrier Brendan Murray to work in the forge in the smoky shoeing scene; they turned the camera on him and his apprentice in the crucial shots where Joey meets Topthorn while waiting to be shod. Hear all about in this interview with Great Britain's international eventing team farrier Brendan Murray, a seasoned veteran of both shoeing and riding for film productions!

Interview by Lexington, Kentucky's freelance equestrian media pro Samantha L. Clark of eventingnation.com and many other audio, video and web projects for the horse world.

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