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The Elephant's Revenge

This description contains terms and images that are offensive. They should be understood in their historical context and do not represent the views of Westminster School today. A story based on Wilhelm Busch's 1863 comic morality tale, in which an elephant is shot and takes revenge on its attacker. The titles come from the captions that appear on the slides. A complete digitised set of these slides can be found online at http://www.slides.uni-trier.de/set/index.php?id=3000009 [accessed: 07/10/2015]

The Dogs and Monks of St Bernard

An educational lecture about the role of the monks and dogs in mountain search and rescue operations at the St Bernard Pass in the Alps between Italy and Switzerland. The narrative is an account of a group of tourists who get into difficulty as a result of an avalanche. A St Bernard dog discovers a child and carries him back to the hostel on its back. Another dog leads the monks to where a woman is buried in the snow. Mother and child are reunited. The complete set of digitised images of these slides can be seen online at http://www.slides.uni-trier.de/set/index.php?id=3005013 [accessed 05/10/2015]

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