jeremiah johnson Elk hunt scene

In Southern Comfort, those Cajuns definitely shot and were field dressing real pigs.

In Game of Thrones, the stag Tywin Lannister is cleaning in his series debut was a real freshly slaughtered stag.

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Hud had a few scenes that looked real.

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Those scenes were supervised by the Humane Society or some similar group. You don't really see anything; it's all suggested by the editing.

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I remember reading about how they used to get horses to flip over by tying a rope to the front foot and letting it hit the end at a full gallop. The riders has to be good.

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There was a similar device known as a "trip wire". This was in the very early days -- various animal rights groups would later clamp down on these practices. I believe several horses were killed on The Charge Of The Light Brigade (1936) which got a lot of negative publicity. After WWII rules for handling animals would get much more stringent.