Subject: Cages--California--Los Angeles - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: A behind-the-scenes look at the animal actors that have roles in popular motion pictures. These animals are well-groomed like any human Hollywood star, and are trained for the profession from a very young age, marked as being highly intelligent. They reside at the California Zoological Gardens on Lincoln Park Boulevard.The 6-year-old Siberian named Beauty is trained by Melville Koontz and is used for his frightening snarls and roars. He will also be starring in an upcoming Warner Brothers picture "The Killer Tiger", although he is very well-behaved off set.
Date:: [circa June 6, 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Dr. Roehrig stands at a picnic table holding the long python's head close to his face. The tail of the snake is resting in a little girl's lap. Several men, women, and other children watch Dr. Roehrig closely.
Date:: July 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Similar photograph appears with the article, "Tiger Does Man Mountain Act With Lioness in Cage," Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep 1936: 10.
Date:: September 19, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Danny smirks at the camera leaning on one elbow against his jail cell.
Date:: July 22, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: A behind-the-scenes look at the animal actors that have roles in popular motion pictures. These animals are well-groomed like any human Hollywood star, and are trained for the profession from a very young age, marked as being highly intelligent. They reside at the California Zoological Gardens on Lincoln Park Boulevard.Midnight is a nine-year-old Malayan panther who is readily identified as the most dangerous of all the animals. He attacked trainer Olga Celeste the previous year, biting into her neck and ripping at her shoulders with his claws, putting her in the hospital for eight weeks, but this has not deterred Olga from training him.
Date:: [circa June 6, 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph appears with the article, "Tiger Does Man Mountain Act With Lioness in Cage," Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep 1936: 10.
Date:: September 19, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Similar photograph appears with the article, "Tiger Does Man Mountain Act With Lioness in Cage," Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep 1936: 10.
Date:: September 19, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: In 1912 William Selig purchased the site that is now Lincoln Park in Los Angeles, at Mission Road and Selig Place, as additional film studio acreage for the housing of wild animals used in his films. The studio was insolvent by 1918 and the zoo was auctioned off in 1923. Over time, it had various names, including Luna Park Zoo, the L.A. Wild Aimal Farms, the California Zoological Gardens, and Zoopark.
Date:: [circa June 6, 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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