# CLYDE BEATTY'S CIRCUS FIGHTING ACT w/ BENGAL TIGERS, LIONS & BIG CATS 62824

Presented by Castle Films as part of the company's "Adventure Parade", "Clyde Beatty's Animal Thrills" show Clyde Beatty's Circus in South Florida. This tourist attraction opened in 1939 when animal trainer and circus manager Clyde Beatty bought out the McKillop-Hutton Lion Farm, which had opened in 1936 in a former rock quarry and served as a breeding farm for zoos and circuses rather than as a public tourist attraction. It was located in Fort Lauderdale at Northeast 10th Street near Federal Highway. Beatty turned it into a winter home for his circus and a tourist attraction, Clyde Beatty's Jungle Zoo, and opened in December of 1939. Beatty's zoo operated until 1945, a victim of tightening zoning regulations brought on by complaints from the neighbors as city development began to overtake the site. Beatty took the show back on the road. Clyde Beatty (June 10, 1903 – July 19, 1965) joined the circus as a cage cleaner as a teen and became famous as a lion tamer and animal trainer. He also became a circus impresario who owned his own show, which later merged with the Cole Bros. Circus to form the Clyde Beatty–Cole Bros. Circus. Scenes include trained elephants performing in front of a packed crowd ( 1:00 ) -- the female performer is likely Beatty's wife Harriet Evans who worked as an aerliest -- scenes of baby and young lions in training ( 2:00 ), as well as a full on big cat show in a cage. At 2:23 a Bengal tiger is shown, one of many at the zoo. At 2:36 Clyde Beatty is seen…

- Kind: Film
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/62824CastleFilmsClydeBeattysAnimalThrills)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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