Animal Motion-Picture Actors.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 28 August 1914, Page 2

Animal Motion-Picture Actors.

A jungle of several acres, inhabited by wild animals of all countries, many of which are already well trained for the parts they are tc play as motion-picture actors, is maintained near Los Angeles by one of the big American, film-pro-ducing companies. It is intended to extend the acreage and accommodation until the motion-picture jungle will form the largest single collection of wild animals in the world: and within it will be, and now is, for that matter, enacted many stirring scenes. A big elephant named "Toddles" is, for instance, the star performer in a film catalogued as "Lost in the Jungle," in which Toddles, during his wandering in the forest, finds the heroine lying exhausted on the ground, and, kneeling, lifts her to his back and gallantly carries her to safety. All the animals are as conscientiously trained to do- acts for the motion-pic ture camera as are the trained animals of a circus.