Thursday, September 15, 2011

Clyde Beatty's Animal Thrills #1-A (From Eric Beheim)

In 1943, Eugene Castle edited together professional motion picture footage filmed at Clyde Beatty’s Ft. Lauderdale Zoo and released it to the home movie market as CLYDE BEATTY’S ANIMAL THRILLS. This title remained in the Castle Films catalogue until 1961 and literally hundreds of 8mm and 16mm prints of it were sold over the years. (Most of you are probably familiar with this film and might even have a copy of it in your collection.) Here are some frame enlargements taken from CLYDE BEATTY’S ANIMAL THRILLS. (I’ve not been able to verify the year when the actual filming took place. I’m guessing that it was sometime before America’s entry into World War II and before gasoline rationing put a damper on vacation travel.)
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Posted by Buckles at 9/15/2011 05:44:00 AM

4 comments:

Eric said...

For many years, CLYDE BEATTY’S ANIMAL THRILLS was shown in Ohio schools in courses on Ohio and its history. Beatty was, of course, a famous Ohioan, having come from Bainbridge. (Wasn’t Pat Anthony from Cleveland?)

15 September, 2011 12:48
Ole Whitey said...

And Dave Hoover was from Middletown.

15 September, 2011 13:34
Roger Smith said...

Right, ERIC. Pat Anthony was a Cleveland boy. His congressman from that district obtained his GI Bill rights to learn wild animal training, which he began formally at World Jungle Compound. Pat was a WW II paratrooper veteran, and in Thousand Oaks, he subsisted on $80 a month.

15 September, 2011 17:08
Harry Kingston said...

Pat Anthony and I got to know him when he was on Vargas.
What a show it was in that cage of fury.
I think the night when I filmed his act he used 2 guns reloaded many times.
He told me Harry I put on a hell of a show for you.
I pick him out every time in C B Demilles Sampson and Deliah as you know candy ass Victor Mature would have never done that.
Red Hartman told me Pat was one of the cat trainer's when Castle had the 5 cat acts at one time.
Harry in Texas

15 September, 2011 19:57

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