Awwww : ) BALTO was one of my all time favorite movies as a kid* Cool!

i love this movie

I would like to point out this is a article, not a place to flood your love for Balto.

First of all, this is a old article, but I can still shed light onto it.

Huskies don't always have their tails curled. Take a look at this picture of Balto: /images/users/273/040.jpg This actually a screenshot taken from a video clip when Balto arrived in Nome, but Balto's tail was curled here. And here: http://www.perrofeliz.net/wp-content/images/balto-llegada-nome.jpg As for Balto's tail on his mount, this is most likely due to mounting, as it appears this way here as well. http://www.cmnh.org/site/Img/A [...] tExhibits/Balto/baltoMount.jpg This was taken shortly after he was mounted.

Comparing the cartoon to the cover of this book, which is completely wrong in every way, is not the best idea. The cartoon Balto doesn't look anything like the real Balto.

Anyway, the eye thing...The real Balto never appeared to have these white patches around his eyes(maybe slightly in some pictures). Which is rather weird to me, because his mount does. I think what happened here is that as Balto aged these markings slowly appeared, as any dog does when they age. But the thing is, I don't think these white spots around his eyes were that prominent when he was alive. So after Balto was mounted, and was under bright light, this advanced it.

Pictures:
http://www.cmnh.org/site/Img/AboutUs/Pressroom/Balto/Balto-4.jpg http://www.troikakennels.com/Images-Static/EH3.jpg

This one could have possibly been the patches under his eyes, but I think this may have been the lighting of the photo. http://content.lib.washington. [...] XT=&REC=8&DMTHUMB=0&DMROTATE=0

I say that because look at this last known photo to Balto. This could be due to the quality of the photo, and the fact that this is a low quality photo, but there appears to be no white patch seen where his eye should be.

http://www.alaskanmalamuteinfo.com/images/stor07.jpg

So to conclude the eye thing, I think the reason you see so many pieces of art that has this is because of what people see on Balto's mount. And also the failure to do any research.

And just to throw this out there, as seeing as the book cover is wrong, Balto's eyes were brown.

As for the cartoon Balto, Balto was based off of huskies, so I don't know whether or not they referenced the real Balto or not.

No, the real Balto was NOT brown. Balto is brown due to being in over exposed light, so the cover of the book is correct here.

Lastly, no, just no...That is the most ridiculous logic I've ever heard. That is a reflection. I've been to the museum myself, and as dumb as this is, I can confirm there is not a "clone" of Balto.

Balto is by far the most incredible film ever from balto 1 to 4 i love wolves.One time i howled in the playground at my school and all my teachers said u have a heart as big as a wolves. Im 11 and why i wrote this is because i lived my whole life with wolves and other creatures.Balto and Jenna have a baby girl in balto 2 and she runs away because she thought she was a dog i mean wow i have written loads . Im also daniel radcliffe siaster got to go loads of hugs ,kisses and howls shadow wolf

i love balto soo but is deat

If you look closely at the glass you can tell that it is a reflection

I think that the real Balto may have had a more curled tail when it was wagging.My dog has a tail that looks like that normally, but when he is excited, running, etc.it curls up.

beautiful

i luv balto and im sad that no one is posting comments any more

he was the brown one but black i think

Great article!!

It is because of the lights in the mueseum that made his fur brown. The book cover has his actual colors, except for the eypatches, maybe. I think that the cartoon Balto is brown to match the display maybe.

Great article

They are really good

They are really good

Ok, first of all, The book cover is RIGHT. Balto wasn't
really brown, and I know, you all think he was because of
the rl pic. But he was black and white. The color in his fur
faded(he's dead and all, ya know) from a black to brownish
color. And this has been mentioned before: dogs can curl and
uncurl their tails. It just so happens that his tail got
uncurled.


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Notice in each pic. Balto is black and white.

Baltos fur faded to brown ^^ it isnt just that he was brown,
it faded to brown after some time of being... eh... stuffed.
^^;;;; he just had his colours beggining to fade... he was
black and white, like on the book. :/

Did you fail to noticed two are drawings, one is a statue
and one is actually Balto?

People change things. As he got older his tail began to
uncurl... that's life... and in the musum in Ohio balto's
body is almost hundred years old (70, 80 or 90 right now.)
things change and that's what happends over time.

Yikes!
That's a good point. But now I'm confused.

interesting. Yes I've seen the looks before but thanks for
showing them.

I think Apri-werewolf has hit several nails on their heads
for you.

I guess that's a good point, multi media such as books and
movies don't usually get things correct when it come to
original features or facts for that matter.

The statue was made only 10 months after the Serum Run, and
he was younger, so his tail would be fuller.

Balto's body would have fur out because before he was
sold to the museum, him and his team were part of sideshows
and were abused, sadly, so his fur might have worn and
everything.

The real Balto's fur was black.
The lights from the museum make it much lighter.

As for the movie, Balto was made to look more wolf-like,
to make a point that he was an outcast and they wanted him
to look like he was part wolf (even though the real Balto
was a purebred husky).

Regarding the book
cover: the illustrators might have made a slight mistake
with the paws and the other markings. You can see the eye
markings, though, very faintly on the eyes of Balto's
stuffed body.

Hope that helped

Umm....um, yes, they are all different. I've seen all of
those "looks" that "Balto" has had, or been given. (That was
a good little book, btw!) But like, you do realize that a
dog can possibly curl and uncurl its tail...? And I wasn't
clear on a lot of what you pointed out, such as the "seeing
through the other side of the tail as if someone cut some
fur off" or something...but, I see what you're getting at.
It's a nice group of images and interesting to compare..

Very interesting! I never noticed that before!