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Top Half - Dancing Cows

Television (Full Length) – 1986

Then I saw her, one of New Zealand's finest jerseys — on her way to a secret dancing lesson at the back of a Te Awamutu farm with stateside animal trainer Sled Reynolds.
– Reporter Dylan Taite
There's no point in laughing about it — I did hear these cows laughing, and I understand there was dancing going on — a bit of a party in one of these fields.
– Reporter Dylan Taite introduces his report
Cows, strangely enough, are not stupid. They're smart in their own particular way. There will never be a cow degree out of the university, but they can learn.
– Animal trainer Gary Gero on cow intelligence
...Kiwi Mike Seresin, back home for what's close on a one million dollar shoot for a television commercial involving dancing and singing cows. It's being made specifically to try and help halt rapidly sliding butter sales in the UK.
– Reporter Dylan Taite describes cinematographer Michael Seresin