The Mutra Cup Meeting Aka The Muttra Cup Meeting (1934)

Full title reads: “THE MUTTRA CUP MEETING - India’s Largest Pig-Sticking Contest.“ India. Various shots of the men on elephants travelling across the filed - quite tall grass. Men on horses looking on - they are the ’spears’. Men on elephants going through the water. Follow the men on horses. One elephant slides in mud and trying to get out. This is the Muttra Cup - hunting with elephants. The aim of the elephants is to drive wild boars and sows in the open so they can be chased and killed. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as wel
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