You have an excellent magazine, offering something for everyone, but I must take exception to a comment made by Perri Gorrara in the article ‘Impact of digitalia on services’ (Playback, Aug. 12, p. 22).

She used as an example of computer effects savings in the industry today, the expense of shooting a horse and rider crashing through a house. Gorrara says ‘you would spend a fortune bringing a horse and rider up from Hollywood that knows how to do this.’

Perri Gorrara, there are many excellent animal wranglers in Ontario and all across Canada that could do that gag in an instant and spend the rest of the day waiting for the human crew to get their act together.

My family has been providing horses and animals to the Toronto film industry since the 1950s cbc series Forest Rangers. On several occasions we have performed that very stunt. There is no need to even suggest the idea of bringing someone up from Hollywood.

After 20 years in the business, Perri maybe you should be watching out for your job, a Hollywood computer might take it over too.

tom bishop jr.

ridgeville, ont.