Spent a rare afternoon in central London today watching the street theatre production of 'The Sultans Elephant'. Pretty rare to find something to marvel at these days but this was pretty awe inspiring stuff from the French 'Royal de Luxe' company. The enormous hydraulic powered elephant with its red tail coated crew had to be seen to be believed as it moved through the West End accompanied by a noisy Gallic rock group on a float and using its trunk to spray the onlookers with water. Also the 'Little Girl' who was actually an 8 metre marrionette was worth following as she skipped to creole music and rode a scooter around St James park.
The finale in Horseguards Parade was worth the wait as the little girl was hoisted into her wooden rocket and helped on her way to new time travels by the elephant. After the fiery departure the top was taken off of the rocket to reveal that she had indeed gone.
I took some good moving images but am limited to a couple of stills here. Pity it doesnt show the elephant standing up to reveal its true scale.
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