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 impr