Saturday, January 07, 2012
By Linda Wilson Fuoco, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Andrew Cooper
Jeremy Irvine as Albert and one of the 14 horses that were used as Joey in "War Horse."
Trailers of "War Horse" might give the impression that this movie would be a difficult one for animal lovers to watch. A wild-eyed horse with flying mane runs up onto a tank and leaps over a trench. The horse is surrounded by flames and gunfire and the bodies of fallen soldiers and dead horses in this World War I epic by director/producer Steven Spielberg.
Amazingly, "No animals were harmed" in the making of this movie, according to the American Humane Association, which has been monitoring animals that perform in movies and television since 1940. The organization gave "War Horse" its highest rating: Monitored: Outstanding.
More than 100 horses used in the cavalry charge scenes were watched and supervised by AHA representative Barbara Carr. So were sheep, chickens and a very amusing goose that functioned as a kind of "watch dog" on the farm in Devon, England, where the war horse lived before the war. Even the rats that plagued actor/soldiers in their trenches were monitored.
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