On a damp day on September 9, 1960, broadcaster Alan Whicker came to Spofforth to interview one of the country’s few remaining horse breakers.
Jack Anderson was 75 at the time and had been training horses for 60 years at the time of the interview.
Mr Anderson gave advice on how he trained horses and an insight into his unusual life.
The video was first first broadcast as part of Tonight, which covered the arts, sciences as well as topical matters and current affairs.
It is now part of a BBC archive of films shared on a weekly basis.
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The interview starts with a series of questions on how to stop horses kicking and biting and how to hold a horse for shoeing.
Mr Anderson also talked about the times when it went wrong:
“I have had legs broken, collar bone, jaw, ribs. Oh yes. One [horse] will do one thing and one will do another. But the heart of the thing is to make them.
“There is a way of making them. If I said to go over them then we went over, even if it took an hour and a half because I am a crude fella when I start.”
He adds he does all of his training by talking, not by using the stick that he brandishes to the camera.
Do any Stray Ferret readers remember Jack Anderson, the Spofforth horse breaker, or the day Alan Whicker visited?
