thecinematichorse: From Arabian Horse World: Out of this World: The Black Stallion - A Trainer’s Vie
thecinematichorse: From Arabian Horse World: Out of this World: The Black Stallion - A Trainer’s View“A hair piece was braided in OLE’s mane every day by our make-up make or camera man to hide the “bridle path” left over from his show ring days and make him look more like the wild stallion the script called for. It had to be removed every night to keep the short hairs underneath from breaking off, leaving us with nothing to attach the piece to.”“The horse was dyed black - monthly in the beginning and about every three weeks toward the end because the dye quit taking. At the very end, the only thing we could find that worked was eyeliner, which we put on with a sponge. We had to order five gallons of the stuff. At first the company wouldn’t give it to us because they thought we were going to re-bottle it in small amounts and make some money by selling it to onlookers.”“I strongly discourage people from dyeing horses, however, because of the high risk of peroxide burn to the horses’ skin. We had a veterinarian and two hair specialists there with us.”They used EYELINER to dye The Black. Makes this image not seem so bad in contrast–((FTR, I would never advocate putting mascara on your horse.)) -- source link