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Discussion in 'TV, Movies, Books about Zoos & Wildlife' started by Simon Hampel, 7 Feb 2004.

  1. Chlidonias

    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    There is a thread here: Murders In The Zoo 1933 Movie

    The movie used to be viewable on Youtube - I don't know if it still is - and that scene at the end of the cats fighting is horrific.
     
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    Chessington zoo was often used by film and advertising companies in the early 1960s. Many of their animals also appeared in TV series and various adverts, such as the toco toucan in the Guinness adds. If anyone remembers the scenes where a keeper had problems with a young elephant, slipping and sliding when the animal urinated, that was a Chessington zoo animal, which sadly later died, after some idiot fed it a rubber ball that caused it to choke.
     
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    Barcelona zoo appears in the Spanish TV mini series The innocent(2021).
     
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    Does anyone know what safari park (in the US) is shown in "The Beasts Are in the Streets" (1978) filming location in Grand Praire, Texas.
    Thanks!
     
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    If I remember correctly the Australian comedy-drama “Please Like Me” included an episode where a group of characters go to Melbourne Zoo with scenes filmed at the zoo but also Werribee where the lion enclosure featured.
     
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    So this is the thread.
    There's also a second scene where Tony and Gloria are in a reptile house, which the fan wiki identifies as being shot at Beardsley. Again, would like confirmation to satiate my curiosity.
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    It's Beardsley.

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    What part of Beardsley is this exhibit in? The rainforest building?
     
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    Yes.
     
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    The movie "Kick Savin’ a Beauty" features a scene filmed outside of the entrance to Menominee Park Zoo.
     
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    The TV show "Bones" has an episode involving an aquarium, S5 E18, "The Predator in the Pool". A tiger shark washes up on a nearby (DC) beach with a leg in its mouth. Analysis shows predation by several species, including a hammerhead, so it had to have come from an aquarium. The nearby "Aquarium of the Atlantic" had recently released a tiger shark, and when the detectives visit, a goliath grouper coughs up a skull. The episode was ironically filmed at the Aquarium of the Pacific.
     
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    Atypical has many scenes where Sam is sitting in front of a penguin exhibit. Although the aquarium is fictional and is meant to be on the East Coast, the exhibit itself was shot at the Aquarium of the Pacific.

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    The opening title scenes for the Bob Hope film 'Call me Bwana' was filmed at Chessington Zoo. This zoo also was the setting for several other early films, as well as many adverts for TV.
     
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    There's a scene at the zoo , I believe Noahs Ark Zoo Farm, in the British TV Show Undeclared War S1E3.
     
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    It's Always Sunny at the Philadelphia Zoo but is actually at the Chester Zoo in London.
     
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    Every British ZooChatter is shaking their heads right now. :p