thecircusblog | March 9, 2009
This man was my childhood hero. At home in El Monte, Calif. there was a movie theater called the Tumbleweed not to far away from our house. All the kids in the neighborhood would go to the Saturday matinee. There was always a cowboy or a Tarzan movie and the price was right….25 cents. When Dad went to the compound […]
thecircusblog | March 9, 2009
Buster Crabb played Tarzan in the movie King of the Jungle. He is pictured here with “Jiggs” the chimp. He was as popular as Johnny Weissmuller. Lex Barker also played Tarzan for a brief period of time. Whe you see some of the older Tarzan movies, look closely into the jungle foliage and you will see […]
thecircusblog | February 19, 2009
Henry Tyndall was at the World Jungle Compound for years. He was their head chimp trainer. This picture was taken on location, a Tarzan movie starring Johnny Weissmuller. The name of the movie was ” Jungle Man Eaters.” The chimp in this picture was “Tamba”. Henry was known for his extraordinary ability to work and […]
thecircusblog | January 2, 2009
Ron Nix was an extraordinary stunt man. He has worked in numerous motion pictures as a stuntman/actor. He worked for me at Legend City and the Maricopa County Fair. He also did production in some of the motion pictures that I produced and directed. To this day we are close friends.
thecircusblog | December 17, 2008
This is where my chimp career started in 1952. Denver and his wife Josie were getting at the age where the chimps became difficult to handle. Josie called Dad for help and it led to my inheriting three chimps…..Bongie, Sailor, and Cheeta. Cheeta had worked in the Tarzan movies prior to this. Added to the chimps that Dad […]
thecircusblog | December 13, 2008
Ed.C. Learmont had a wonderful hobby of the circus and the animals in it. It all started back in the late 1920’s with chimps. One of his chimps was named Cheeta. She worked with John Weismuller in the Tarzan pictures shot at the Jungle compound 1000 Oaks, CA in the 1930’s and early 1940’s. There Mr. Learmont met Mr. Louis […]
thecircusblog | December 13, 2008
Charlie stared in the movie “Who Killed Doc Robbin?” …. Hal Roach Studio.
thecircusblog | December 4, 2008
Ivan M. Henry….In 1959 at Jungleland, Thousand Oaks, CA, some studio people were interested in doing a television series called “Young Tarzan”. This is one of the photos left from the photo shoot.
