Jungleland Monkey Business
Posted By thecircusblog on May 14, 2012
These are two of the Henry Tyndall chimps. Backyard playing was part of their training. You never knew what a TV or movie company would ask your chimps to do. It was important that your chimps had no fear and could preform anywhere…. anytime. Henry was constantly involving his chimps with different situations and environments. Henry’s off camera work was unbelievable. He could cue a chimp from 30 to 40 feet away and much further if need be. Even from behind the camera. At motion picture work he was the best, but he was not a good performer. He did his chimp act at the compound main arena stage. It was obvious to another performer he was uncomfortable when performing.
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I believe the Wood bleachers in the background are Mabels Tiger Arena, which means the Bulldozer was there to dig ‘Swan Lake’ .
Correction, Possably the Bear Pool which had a slide, maybe Janice Chandler knows.