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Illustration for the project Film Adventure: Black Beauty

Film Adventure: Black Beauty

Explore horse welfare, Victorian life and the power of telling a story through a horse's eyes.

A thoughtful after-film Adventure based on the 1994 film. Children investigate changing standards of horse care, compare past and present, write from a first-person viewpoint and design a kinder working yard.

Film & Media
English
History
Horse Knowledge
Ethics

  • Victorian working horses
  • How first-person narration shapes empathy
  • Horse welfare then and now
  • How choices affect animals