Jules Jacot #1 (From Eric Beheim)

The following images of Jules Jacot presenting the St. Louis Zoo’s lion act are 16mm frame enlargements from CARNIVAL AT THE ZOO, a Castle Films short subject that was released to the home movie market in 1952. (The lion act footage, which might have been filmed earlier than 1952, goes by so quickly that it is best studied as a series of frame enlargements.) The sequence opens with Jules raising up the chute door and letting the lions into the performance arena.