We have the pleasure and honor
to present to our friends and other fans, the one that recently has obtained to
the “FIAPBT
& IADCRO RECOGNITION TO THE AMERICAN PIT BULL TERRIER INVESTIGATION BEST
WORK 2012”, which by the excellent
critic generated in diverse society sectors, happens to be a wonderful
contribution for the humanity interest, since previously to this work nothing
similar in no place had
never been realised.
This work of investigation is called, “THE AMERICAN PIT BULL TERRIER BEGINNINGS IN THE CINEMA”
realised by Mar Bartolome (FIAPBT).
We hope and we wished that you enjoy so much with it
as all us.
En
ESPAÑOL: “LOS COMIENZOS DEL AMERICAN PIT BULL TERRIER EN EL CINE”
The translation to
the English is not very good, reason why if some volunteer wanted to
collaborate to us and to realise a correction to this work we would thank so
much for it. Thanks in advance. fiapbt@fiapbt.net
FIAPBT: http://www.facebook.com/pages/FEDERACION-INTERNACIONAL-DEL-AMERICAN-PIT-BULL-TERRIER/271421886132?sk=wall – www.fiapbt.net
IADCRO: www.iadcro.com
THE AMERICAN
PIT BULL TERRIER BEGINNINGS IN THE CINEMA. By
Mar Bartolome.
Introduction:
I would like to express
with some words which has meant for me the accomplishment of this “Work”. And I
put work in inverted commas because it has not been so, because it has supposed
a great satisfaction in my knowledge on the breed. With Panda, my American Pit
Bull Terrier always under my feet, I have enjoyed to the maximum in its
accomplishment. I have felt sensations that cannot be expressed with words. It
has been long time of study of the owners of these incredible animals actors who leave in this investigation work and I
have put myself in his skin to be able to understand what they felt by its dear
mascots. I feel totally identified with them, because they loved his dogs, not
by the simple cause that were wonderful animals
actors, but because they were one more of his own family.
I want to give to a special
mention to Roscoe Arbuckle and his dog Luke, because I got to see in the glance
of Arbuckle things that only one person whom he sincerely loves his dog can
express. It moved to me especially his person and in many occasions I even
spilled some tear when putting me in his skin and his time. The American Pit
Bull Terrier is those that have given me the force to realise this study and I
am want to be thankful of all heart to this breed, because once again they have
taught to me ........ to feel.
I hope that you enjoy so
much with it like I have enjoyed with it.
Mar Bartolomé
International American
Pit
Bull
Terrier
Federation
(FIAPBT)
e-mail: m.marbartolome@hotmail.com
The birth of the American
Pit Bull Terrier like stars in the cinematographic world obligatorily takes to
us to know a little history the birth of the cinema, since both go of hand one
next to the other. I do not try to extend in this field, but it is necessary to
know a few data on this event that changed our lives completely.
Until 1890, the scientists
were more interested in the world of the photography that in the
cinematography. This changed when the old inventor and then already White
industrialist Thomas Edison constructed to the Black Maria, a laboratory near
These apparatuses had in
its interior an endless roll of film, and they only could visualize it a person
per time. This disadvantage caused that it was continued studying on the cinema
projectors.
The experiments on the
projection of visible images in movement for more of a spectator were developed
simultaneously in
At the beginning of 1900,
the breed dog American Pit Bull Terrier was an icon very appreciated by the
American town. It was sight like a familiar dog, and of confidence around the
children. Brave and protective of all the family, he was considered like a symbol
for the American town, because it is a strong, powerful, balance and extremely
intelligent animal, and never like a threat for the society.
I must clarify simply that
some of the American Pit Bull Terrier that leave in this investigation work
have the tail amputee, due by whim of its owners.
MANNIE (the
pioneer)
Many of the actors who then
existed in that time did not doubt in putting themselves next to one of these
dogs to roll their scenes. Some actors of the time did not even doubt in
recording scenes with their own dogs like it is the case of the star of the vodevil Laura Comstock and her wonderful American Pit Bull
Terrier “Mannie” in Laura Comstock's Bag-Punching Dog, of 1901. In this film it
is possible to be seen “Mannie” jumping to take a boxing coat. Its jumps were
impressive and fast. It reaches and finally breaks it. The director of cinema
and husband of Laura Comstock, Norman H. Mosher, was his trainer and Mannie
learned all type of tricks because its intelligence was outside the normal thing.
In those times it was difficult to train a dog for such aim and was amazing the
amount of time and patience necessary to teach such tricks.
Bag-Punching
Dog (1901)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrHfj_G3ZKI&feature=g-upl
Mannie became famous in the
circuit of vodevil and it became the first
cinematographic dog star, appearing in films like
Foot, Tramp & the Bulldog (1901), Dog Factory (1904) and Terrible The Kids
(1906).
In 1904 the producer Edwin
Porter made an adaptation in Kinetoscopio, based on cómic of Richard Felton Outcault
of 1902, “Buster Brown and Tige”. Norman H. Moshes
was friend of Porter and it suggested the paper to him of Tige
was interpreted by “Mannie”. At first they did not have glided that was a
series, rather was a vehicle to present “Mannie”, but it was as much successful
that followed more with several chapters.
Buster Brown was a boy of
city, the allowed boy of a rich family who next to their dog “Tige” made all type of misdeeds and jokes, of which soon
never regreted. The paper of Buster Brown was
interpreted by Grandville Hamilton Fisher. In cómic
of Outcault, Tige had the particularitity of being able to speak, but because in the
cinema the sound could not be still reproduced, that characteristic was
annulled for the production of the series.
The mother of Buster tries
to buy a globe for her son, but but Buster gets
upset, he pushes the salesman and he orders to Tige
that bites the trousers of him. The seller loosen all
the globes and Tige and three Pit Bull more explode
globes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMkdvykK9DY
Buster, their mother and Tige go to a store. Very much women occupies all the counter fighting by the clothes. Buster orders to Tige that jumps and takes the averages that are hung in the
ceiling of the store. Tige to please to its owner, begins to jump, barking and giving somersaults. This
scares the women, who go away and leave to the mother of Buster the free space,
while Tige bites a wood chair.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqhDocR8TXo
In this short Buster, Tige, his mother and a friend are in front of a showcase,
when a man with a small dog approaches. The mother of Buster puts itself to
speak with the man. Buster demands her attention and when she ignores him, it
causes that Tige bites the necklace of the dog of the
man. The man be scared and he puts himself to shout. The
mother of Buster throws the hat of the man to the ground and both dogs turn
aside the attention towards the hat and begin to bite it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8ylQls4csM
March 9, 1904-Buster’s Revenge on the Tramp
Buster
wants a cake box that is not to its reach. Then a vagabond by
the window enters and aid to take it to him. But the vagabond begins to
eat and he does not let to Buster prove mouthful. Then flame to Tige so that it bites the vagabond and throws to him of the
house. Her mother
realizes, and awards to Buster with cakes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHdfx5v3_PA
March 9, 1904-Buster’s Dog to the Rescue
In this occasion the
servant of Buster keeps a box from cakes at the top of a closet so that it does
not take Buster to it and she goes away of the room. Buster takes stairs and
tries to take the box when he is surprised by his mother, who gives a beating him
and she ties to him to the table so that he does not move. Buster calls to his
faithful Tige friend so that it is this one the one
that rises the stairs to take cakes. Obedient Tige
rises it takes, them and it occurs them to Buster. Both
end up eating cakes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0carbfJk6Y
As much it was the success
that had “Tige” with Buster Brown who soon the
majority of American children asked to shouts to have a Pit Bull like “Tige” to his side.
When the series of “Buster
Brown and Tige” finished, the first short that
produced Foster was Dog Factory in 1904. Mannie leaves at the end of the film
and is the dog that bites in the trousers a man. Between all the dogs that
leave in this films, Mannie was the dog that had the
paper protagonist. In the film also her owner Laura Comstock takes part, who
during the running maintained the control of the dogs.
Dog Factory (1904)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUSqJGOI-gQ
Between 1909 and 1912 all the aspects of the
rising cinematographic industry were under the control of trust (Monopoly)
American, MPPC (Motion Pictures Patents Company), formed by the main producers.
This group limited the duration of the films one or two coils and rejected the
request of the actors to appear in the credit titles. Trust was disassembled
successfully in 1912 by the Law Anti Trust of the government, who allowed the
independent producers to form his own companies of distribution and exhibition,
reason why could arrive until the American public European works from quality,
like Quo vadis (1912, of Enrico Guazzoni),
of Italy, or queen Isabel (1912), of France, carried out by the actress Sarah Bernhardt.
The example, mainly of Italy, that in 1912
with 717 productions was the most powerful cinema of the world, took to the
American producers to the action, seeing itself forced to make films longer, in
which the directors also had a greater artistic freedom, and the actors would
appear in the credit titles, which did unfailingly that some of these became
the favorites of the public. Like result, he followed
a period of economic and artistic expansion in the cinema of this country.
Soon the necessity that arose music had
expressive aims and therefore to create a music that
accompanied concrete images.
In order to disguise the noise that made
the machines of projection and to brighten up to the hearing, some proprietors
contracted musicians who touched the piano, organ or the pianola. Also they took small groups that improvised
according to the scenes that appeared then in the screen. Fast rates for the
serious persecutions, sounds for the mysterious moments and romantic melodies
for the love scenes were used. Often they were limited to realise variations on
one or two subjects, and improvised on the march, because in the majority of
the cases they had not seen previously the film.
Between 1915 and 1920 the great rooms of
cinema proliferated by all the territory of the United States, while the
industry moved of the environs from New York to Hollywood, small Californian
locality next to Los Angeles where the independent producers, like Thomas
Harper Ince, Cecil B. Of Mille and
Mack Sennett, constructed their own studies.
LUKE (The
spectacular American Pit Bull Terrier)
One of the more popular humorous
actors of his time was Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle (
Buster Keaton in his autobiography
described to Arbuckle like a joking man of nature, and creator, next to the own
Keaton, of elaborated gags and humorous schemes that put to the service of
figures of the comedy of the sonorous cinema.
The
In January of 1914 Minta Durfee made
a film for the producer Mack Sennett in the Keystone studies. Sennett said to
Durfee that will go to the director Wilfred Lucas house, for an advantage that
thought she had won to roll a particularly difficult scene when hung being in a
bridge. The advantage was not an extra money as they thought, if not that it
was a beatiful American Pit Bull Terrier puppy of six weeks of age, borned in
December of 1913.
Arbuckle and his wife Minta welcomed
in the puppy with an enormous smile and they called it “Luke” in honor the
director, who was the breeder of the litter. Luke grew with them and got to be
a member very wanted by both. Luke was a American Pit Bull Terrier exceptional
and Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle introduced to it in the cinematographic industry
rolling with it many of his films. With the time, Durfee commented that it had
been the best advantage than had obtained in the course of her cinematographic work like actress.
Luke was so dear in the family, who
when Arbuckle and Durfee separated the
Luke passed away in 1926 and during
its thirteen years of life, it realised many films done by Arbuckle and his friends,
with such agility, skill, and intelligence that many people felt that Luke
robbed protagonism to the stars of the films. Luke was officially in the list
of Keystone in 150 dollars for each week and had a reputation of being brave at
the time of carrying out any work.
It was so the existing mutual
understanding between Arbuckle and Luke, that have been one of the best
existing dog actors at all the times of the history of the cinema. It obeyed
all the orders and it even did unthinkable works for that time in a dog.
Incredibly brave, Luke
realised a variety of tricks to the Roscoe service, including raising stairs,
persecuting to the villains by the tile roofs, jumping of building in building.
Also it jumped from high altitude. Once, with the synchronization of a fraction
of second, it was filmed jumping of a car at full speed to another one. It
always was by hand when Arbuckle was working, and it accompanied all the runnings to him, although it would not act in some films.
![cap007[1]](pitbullcine2_archivos/image029.jpg)
Luke´s filmografíe:
1914-The Knockout (Extract where appears
Luke)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXnK6vvVEhI
1915- Wash Day (Extract)
1915- Fatty’s Plucky Pup (complete film)
1916- Fatty and Mabel
Adrift
1917-Fatty’s
1917- The Butcher Boy (Extract)
1918- The cook (Extract)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGr5n8tREPA
1919- The Garage (Extract)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7vhBVa_IKk
1919- The Hayseed (Extract)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4muKDSuUfmE&feature=youtu.be
1920- The Scarecrow (Extract)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBar6x8dUD4
Another one of the most famous actors
of those time was the popular Charles Chaplin (April 16/1889 - December 25/1977).
He was a humorous actor, composer, producer, director and British writer. He
acquired popularity thanks to his personage “Charlot” in multiple films of the
dumb period. From then, a symbol of the humorous and the dumb cinema is
considered. For the end of World War I, he was one of the more recognized men
of the world-wide cinematography.
At the end of 1913, the activities of
Chaplin had been seen by Mack Sennett, Mabel Normand, Minta Durfee and Roscoe
“Fatty” Arbuckle. Sennett, that was shortage in a theater of New York in a
drunkard paper contracted him for his Keystone studies.
Chaplin quickly became a success and
was the most popular star of Keystone.
Normand directed sometimes to Chaplin
and also he wrote the scripts of some of his first films. To Chaplin he did not
please to him to be directed by a woman, and in many occasions them had
discords. Nevertheless, they became friends, although shortly after Chaplin
left Keystone.
The personage of the vagabond, also
known like Charlot, was presented during the time of the dumb cinema in a
comedy of titled Keystone suffocating Races (released the 7 of February of
1914). Charlot is a vagabond with ways refinings, clothes and the dignity of a
horseman. Chester Conklin contributed with small frac and Ford Sterling with
the shoes. The unique thing that belonged to Chaplin was the cane, since the
bowler also was of Roscoe Arbuckle.
In 1915, Chaplin
signed a new contract with Essanay by a year and with
this company he filmed 14 films in which he developed his cinematographic
abilities much more, in considered productions more ambitious. Frequently, they
shared poster with Chaplin actors like Edna Purviance.
In 1916, the Mutual Film Corporation paid to Chaplin 670,000 dollars to produce
a dozen of comedies of two rolls with exceptional conditions. Twelve films took
place during a period of 18 months, per which he received 150. 000 dollars. Edna Purviance
continued being the feminine protagonist.
Chaplin assumed the
direction of his films since 1918. Nevertheless, a year before, when his
contract with the Mutual had finalized, refused to continue working with this
one and signed a new contract with the First National to produce eight films by
1. 075. 000 dollars. For the First National he
realised in 1918 To Dog's Life (Life of dogs).
MUTT (The nice American
Pit Bull Terrier mixed)
To Dog's Life was the first short
that realised with the First National. It is simultaneously the Chaplin longest
production at that time and first about which he thought seriously about the
construction of a humorous argument.
Chaplin said to the mass media that
he had been considering the possibilities of working with a dog more of one
year ago before making this film, and decided that it was the perfect moment to
realise this film. Only he had to find the dog perfect. For it thought about a
dog sausage, pomerania, poodle, a Boston Terrier or an English bulldog before
that he understand that really he needed was a mixed dog since the own Chaplin
interpreted a vagabond paper.
Chaplin gathered 21 dogs of the
The plot of the film was very simple.
Mutt interpreted the paper of “Scraps”, a vagabond dog that is attacked by
other dogs. Chaplin, in his vagabond paper, saves to it of that attack and that
is the beginning of a perfect friendship; two left people without home,
vagabonds to his luck. Together they fight to stay in spite of unemployment and
the hunger both alive. Chaplin falls in love with a singer, paper interpreted
by Edna Purviance and “Scraps” plays the most important role in the film for
both can enjoy a life together and happy.
The film was a great success in the
Chaplin cinematographic. Mutt even enjoyed that great success, since thanks to
the affectionate character and the enormous intelligence that it owned, it was
adopted by Charles Chaplin and it passed the rest of its life like a member of
the studies personnel of the star aside from being like a member more of the
Chaplin family.
1918 - A Dog’s Life (Extract)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIgb7y8gFj0
Aside from Mutt, in it films acted several
racially mixed dogs and other two pure breed American Pit Bull Terrier. One of
them, had a paper a little more outstanding than the rest, since it is the one
that bites the trousers to Chaplin and it remains with a piece of trousers in
its mouth and it goes away with the fabric piece.
By the amount of dogs that
acted in this film it posed some problems in the production and in some
occasion the dogs had some confrontation in the running Seth. Along with
receipts of the dog meat, receipts of 65 cents of ammoniac were included in the
orders that were used to stop the confrontations that took place among it.
The later years to the I
World war, the cinematographic industry became one of the main sectors of the
American industry, generating million dollars of benefits to the producers that
were successful. The films of this country internationalized and dominated the
world-wide market. In the Twenties the American films began to have a sophistication and a smoothness of style that it
synthesized what it had been learned of the experience.
The humorous films knew a
time sea bream in the Twenties. To Chaplin other two comedians were united,
Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton, at the top of the sort, both continuators of
the tradition of the humorous films of a single coil.
In 1926 the producer Warner
Brothers introduced the first effective sonorous system, known like Vitaphone, consisting of the recording of the musical sound
tracks and texts spoken in great discs that were synchronized with the action
of the screen.
Towards 1931 the Vitaphone system had been surpassed by the Movietone, that
directly recorded the sound in the film, in a sideband. This process, invented
by Lee de
The transition of the dumb
cinema to the sonorous one was so fast that many films distributed between 1928
and 1929, that had begun their process of production like dumb, were voiced
later to adapt themselves to a urgent demand. The owners of the rooms also
hurried to turn them into rooms apt for sonorous, while films were rolled in
which the sonorous one was exhibited like newness, being adapted literary works
and introducing strange sound effects to the first opportunity. The public soon
got tired of the monotonous dialogues and the static situations of these films,
in which a group of actors was placed near a fixed microphone.
Such problems were solved
in the beginnings of the decade of 1930, when in several countries a group of
cinema directors had the imagination necessary to use the new one of more
creative form half, releasing the microphone of their statism
to restore a flowed sense of the cinema and to discover the advantages of the postsynchronization (the dubbing, the effects room and the
sound equipment generally that follows the assembly), that allowed the
manipulation of the sound and music once rolled and mounted the film.
One of the series more
known the history of the cinema was Our Gang. The Series was created by the
producer Hal Roach and it began to realise in his studies in 1922 like a series
of short dumb. It was famous to show young acting in natural way. From his first director, Robert F. McGowan, characterized itself
for being first in filming of a realistic way the behavior
of the children. Another characteristic that made famous to the series
was the one to present an egalitarian group made up of boys and girls, targets
and black, formula that later would become a common fact of the cinema.
According to Roach, the
idea of the series was happened to him in 1921, when a girl to hearing went to
appear in one of his films. The girl was, in his opinion, too much tried
composing. To Roach her action did not seem to him natural. He was shown to the
window and he watched towards a wood warehouse in the street, where he saw a
group of children who yes had an argument. The children had taken all the woods
of the wood warehouse to play, but the smallest boy had taken the wood
greatest, and the other were trying to force him to
give the wood to the greatest boy. After realizing of which there was been
observing the discussion of the children during 15 minutes, Roach thought that
a series of shorts on the children, being they themselves, could be a success.
The first actors of the
series young were recommended to Roach mainly by the employees of the study,
including the daughter of the photographer, and the children of his friends,
but soon they made national castings where thousands of children (many taken to
drays almost by his parents), appeared to hearing for the papers available.
Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland and
The majority of the first
short ones was rollings
outdoors and also animal counted on a collection of origin comic strip
personages since his idea also was that the series was tanden
“boy-mascot”. In the beginnings animal of diverse nature like “Dinah were even
used the Mule” or a goat.
Altogether short ones were
made 220 and one film (General Spanky) and in their
distribution participated a total of 41 young actors, who when growing, left
the series and were replaced by younger children.
The series Our Gang was a
success from the beginning, by the children naturalism, the funny scenes with
animal actors, and the direction of McGowan doing a successful combination. The
children, some too small ones to know how to read, as soon as they saw the
scripts, being into the hands of the director to explain the scenes to them to
film just before doing it, directing to the children using a megaphone and
animating to them to improvise.
Roach changed of
distributor several times, working with companies like Pathé
or Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). The series began to take control of sound as of
1929 and was sold to the MGM in 1938, company that continued with the series
until 1944. At about the middle of the years 50, the eighty short ones that
became in the Roach Studies were sold to the television under the title The
Little Rascals, since the MGM maintained the rights of the name Our Gang.
In the 1927 the children of
Our Gang acquired a American Pit Bull Terrier with a ring around their eye,
originally called " Pansy", but soon one
knew like “Pete the doggie”, the most famous series mascot and the most
faithful friend of the children.
PAL THE WONDER DOG (The
great children friend)
It was the first American
Pit Bull Terrier that used the children in the series Our Gang in the paper of
“Pete the doggie”.
It was born in 1925 and he
was son of Tudor's “Black Jack”, property of Earl Tudor. Its owner and trainer were the Lieutenant Harry Lucenay.
Pal the Wonder Dog FIAPBT Pedigree Online: http://www.fiapbtpedigree.com/imprimir_ficha.php?idm=en&criterio=326891
Pal era en gran medida la mascota de la familia Lucenay. Era conocido como “Petey
el perrito” con el anillo alrededor de su ojo, ya que tenía una anillo natural casi por completo alrededor
de su ojo. Esta curiosidad hizo que se acreditara como una rareza en Ripley’s Believe It or Not,
franquicia estadounidense que trata de acontecimientos extraños o curiosos
sucedidos en el mundo.
Como curiosidad,
para terminar el círculo alrededor del ojo, fue maquillado con colorante
artificial por el maquillador más demandado de Hollywood, Max Factor.
With only six months of
age, Pal the Wonder Dog, began its race like actor doing a short paper in the
film “The Freshman” in 1925 with Harold Lloyd.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxfyzSvvL38
Pal was an excellent actor
and was demanded by directors Scott Pembroke and Joe Rock for the films
“Somewhere in Wrong” (1925) and “Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pryde” (1925), both with Stan Laurel, having had a paper
protagonist in both films.
1925 - Somewhere in Wrong (Extract)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K32CxgQd4s
1925- Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pryde (Extract)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhvKOIlV59g
Pal also was chosen to
interpret the paper of “Tige” in the reedición of the series “Buster Brown and Tige”.
The series was directed,
obvious, to a very young public and offered very little for the adults,
nevertheless the young people entertained thoroughly with Buster Brown and his
dog “Tige”. Pal was trained and demonstrated very
well its magnificent abilities in the series of Buster Brown.
In 1927 Hal Roach
introduced to Pal in the famous series “Our Gang”, interpreting the paper that
nowadays has been the most famous dog of the history of the cinema, “Pete”.
Besides intelligent, Pal player was, affectionate and very careful with the
children and arrived to be considered more as a nursemaid instead of how a dog
distribution companion. Soon all the American children wanted to have a
American Pit Bull Terrier like friend and companion of games in their lives,
and the parents saw to the American Pit Bull Terrier like an authentic
caretaker and protector of their children.
Pal was contracted by the
Roach studies by three years receiving a pay of 125 dollars per week, with a
weekly increase of 25 dollars to make it exclusive of the Roach Studies. Pal became
the second actor better paid of the series, only surpassed by the actor whom
interpreted to Farina, Allen Hoskins.
The last film that made Pal
went “To Tough Winter” (1930) since, unfortunately, Pal was poisoned by a
unknown person, probably by some adjustment accounts or some resentment against
Harry Lucenay and died just by 5 years of age.
Pal the Wonder Dog with Our Gan
(Extract)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRcPCYmvRXk
When finding out the death
of Pal, the children of the series Our Gang were heartbroken, they considered
it like one more of his band and his better friend, but at those moments Pal
had a litter, and Harry Lucenay
used one of its sons to continue in the series. That puppy that used was Lucenay's “Pete”.
LUCENAY’S “PETE” (All a
Legend)
Lucenay's “Pete” was born the September 6, 1929 and its
breeder was A.A. Keller. Was registered like American Pit Bull Terrier in the
United Kennel Club (UKC) under the name of “Purple Ribbon Peter” with number
22558. Also was registered this American Pit Bull Terrier in the American
Kennel Club (AKC), but in June 9, 1936 the AKC changed the name of the breed
American Pit Bull Terrier by the Staffordshire Terrier (In 1972 to change again
the name of the breed by which we know at the moment like American
Staffordshire Terrier - AST-). From here comes the confusion from which many
followers of the series Our Gang thought that Pete was a Staffordshire Terrier.
Lucenay’s Pete FIAPBT Pedigree Online: http://www.fiapbtpedigree.com/imprimir_ficha.php?idm=en&criterio=67627
.
Lucenay's Pete had the characteristic of its father of the
almost complete ring around its eye, only that in the opposed side to where it
had Pal. The legs also
had a different color slightly.
![71036_292436373597_4977647_n[1]](pitbullcine2_archivos/image088.jpg)
Although later other dogs
used to interpret the paper of Pete, Lucenay's “Pete”
was the more known of all.
The capacity of Pete to
respond humorously at the right moment and its strong relation with the
children of Our Gang was applauded by the public during generations. All this
was the effort and the great work that Harry Lucenay
with a dog pertaining to a breed dog with an intelligence
outside the common thing.
Lucenay’s Pete with its trainer Harry Lucenay
https://www.facebook.com/FIAPBT/videos/237744397425774
Following the children to the school, helping them to escape, as well as
taking care of the children, a thing was evident: its incredible loyalty and
affection. In the book, “The Little Rascals: The Life and Times of Our Gang”,
the infantile actors delighted with being with Petey.
Jack Cooper wrote in his autobiography, "I liked so much this dog";
and he said that one of the great events of his childhood was when he was
allowed to take him to house to Petey with him during
the weekend. "Being a weekend with Pete… was my idea of the glory and the
paradise together".
Pete was the perfect
example of the relation between a boy and his dear dog and that were a formula
very used for the series, and that was one of the keys of the great successful that
it was.
Lucenay's Pete began its race like actor since very small.
Only it was days old when its first film with the boys of Our Gang in 1930 be
rolled in, “Pups is Pups”, one of the closeest episodes,
where Wheezer has a litter of puppies Pit Bull that
come running towards him when listening to sound a bell. The affection that Wheezer gives to his puppies is comforting for its. When Wheezer loses his bell, he also loses his puppies, that follow all the bells that hear. Wheezer looks for his loved puppies throughout but it is in
vain. Wheezer finally finishes in the steps of the
church, lowered, crying by his lost puppies. Next, the bells of the church
sound and the puppies come running towards Wheezer,
having history a happy end.
Pups is Pups (1930) (Complete film)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qfuiGAMdPQ
School’s Out (1930) (Extract)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SQpKDJKOOQ
Love Business (1931) (Extract)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SQpKDJKOOQ
Shiver my Timbers (1931) (Complete film)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFmLFO56Dog
Dogs Is Dogs(1931) (Extract)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmuKceVFb0s
Readin’ And Writen
(1932) (Extract)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8S3zeQpm4U&feature=youtu.be
Choo Choo (1932) (Extract)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqTbP_aJhzc
The Pooch (1932) (Complete film)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwH292SOWf4
The last film that made Lucenay's Pete with Our Gang, was
“The Pooch” in 1932, since Harry Lucenay was
dismissed of the Roach studies.
Studies Hal Roachs in 1931:
Photography with some members of the Studies. Laurel and
Hardy also are in the photography.
After leaving Roach, Lucenay's Pete went to New York, and appeared in short of
Fatty Arbuckle " Buzzin ' Around" and in
the reporter of the Paramount " Broadway Highlights", in that it is
seen it drinking a jar of beer like his initiation in The Lambs Club.
Broadway Highligts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmb74edXb48
But Pete never stopped
working. In 1936, it was united again to Our Gang, but only for a tour of
personal presentation, since it was the best dog than it represented the paper
of Pete in the series Our Gang.
But Lucenay's
Pete was not only one source of money or one celebrity for the Lucenay family, but it was a familiar dog and he was
considered like one more of the Lucenay family.
![image024[1]](pitbullcine2_archivos/image112.jpg)
Lucenay's' Pete died the
The son of Harry Lucenay, Ted, had 18 years of age when Pete died, reason
why he servant with him together. He was a young boy who grew in
When Ted, he asked themselves to him about Pete after his death, said, "It
was an amiable, warm dog and friendly. … He slept on the feet of my bed. It was
the dog of the family. I really miss it". “It always has been wellknow" , " He loved
everybody it.” In order to foment the nice doggie, Harry Lucenay,
took to Pete to Steel Pier, in
At present still continues
remembering this great dog actor, although have spent 66 years of his death,
and as its legend continues, people wonder themselves
what happened with the rest of the dog of
But, Lucenay
said, “no of the rumors are
certain. Pete died as older, not poisoned”. According to the woman of Ted,
Helen, the place of final rest of the famous doggie is a secret that took Lucenay when it passed away.
VIDEO TRIBUTE TO STARS OF CANINE CINEMA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90kxYhAJ5mM
Tribute of my American Pit Bull
Terrier PANDA (ONE EYE) to PAL THE WONDER DOG and to LUCENAY´S PETE.
FAMOUS ACTORS OWNERS OF AMERICAN PIT BULL TERRIER
Fred Astaire (Actor)
Linda Blair (Actress)
Rosie Pérez (Actress)
Jon
Stewart (Actor)
Amy Jo
Johnson (Actress)
Bradt Pitt (Actor)
Michael J. Fox (Actor)
Vin Diesel (Actor)
Frankie Muniz (Actor)
Jessie James (Actor and presenter)
Alicia Silverstone (Actress)
Hilary Swank (Actress)
Bernardette
Peters (Actress)
Jon Stewart (Actor)
Jennifer López (catres and singer)
Work carried out by:
Mar Bartolomé
International American
Pit
Bull
Terrier
Federation
(FIAPBT)
e-mail: m.marbartolome@hotmail.com
La traducción al ingles
no es muy buena, por lo que si algún voluntario quisiera colaborarnos y
realizar una corrección a este trabajo se lo agradeceríamos mucho. Gracias por adelantado. fiapbt@fiapbt.net
The translation to
the English is not very good, reason why if some volunteer wanted to
collaborate to us and to realise a correction to this work we would thank so
much for it. Thanks in advance. fiapbt@fiapbt.net