 As most people know, the Thousand Oaks, CA, facility was established in the 1920s by Louis Goebel who sold his Wild Animal Farm in 1945 to Isaac Sherman “Trader” Horne and W.J. “Billy” Richards. They operated it until 1956 when some movie studio executives bought the attraction and renamed it Jungleland, hoping to expand and compete with the new Disneyland, Knott’s Berry, and other parks in the region. Louis Goebel regained possession of the business in foreclosure actions in 1961 but sold the park in 1965 (this was the period when Chappie Fox acquired for Circus World Museum a number of circus wagons that were there plus the carved elephants shown here on the entrance building and originally on a Barnes tableau). When the new owners were unsuccessful, Jungleland closed and a big auction of animals was held in 1969. The attraction made a specialty of providing animals for motion picture studios. Films produced in 1952 that are cited in the booklet include Androcles and the Lion, Bonzo Goes to College, Fearless Fagan, Forbidden Land, Monkey Business, Somebody Loves Me, The Greatest Show on Earth, and The Lion and the Horse. Other films mentioned on inside pages as having animals from the World Jungle Compound are Forbidden Jungle (1950), Jungle Manhunt (1951), and Desert Legion (1953). [Dates come from IMDb]  |
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
From Richard Flint #2
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There are dozens of other pictures with Goebel stock. To make sure his animals were leased for TARZAN THE APE MAN, shot in 1931, he camped on the location at Lake Sherwood, where all the diving and swimming sequences were filmed. Thus, Louie had animals on all 12 Weissmuller "Tarzan" titles, the 7 with Lex Barker, and another 16 when Weissmuller got fat and they put clothes on him for his "Jungle Jim" run. The chimps, from Tarzan's Cheetah to Jungle Jim's Tamba, in spite of calculated lies by every chimp act in the world, were trained by Chief Henry Tyndall, still a fixture until the place closed. The last big feature we had was DR. DOLITTLE, shot in 1966 and early '67. I got 12 weeks on the shoot. Some of our guys back-stabbed and cut each other's throats over that one, getting 16 to 20 months on studio pay, and were rewarded with money they'd never have seen on circuses--they bought homes and cars. These screen credits don't begin to list TV shows, commercials, and print ads. The Compound dominated exotic animal rentals for 40 years, until earnest competition began in the mid-60s.
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