This Cocky’s Really Cocky Aka Performing Cockatoos (1952)

Unissued / unused footage - dates and locations may be unclear or unknown. Australian newsreel titles read: ’This Cocky’s REALLY Cocky’. Victoria, Australia. M/S of animal trainer Peter Miller posing with 2 cockatoos and a dog. Various shots of performing cockatoos. One holds onto its hair with its foot. Other tricks include jumping through a hoop and hanging onto it with its beak, turning round and round and falling over, attempting to play a miniature toy piano, square dancing. One bird enters a miniature public bar, brings out a bottle of beer then performs like a drunk by turning over and over. A cockatoo sits on the back of a dog like a jockey while the dog jumps hurdles and stands up on its hind legs. Cockatoo on dog’s back joins in skipping with trainer, Peter Miller. 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 ENQUIR