Universal City Zoo

Universal City Zoo
"Animal cages at Universal City"
(Scientific American, 1915)
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Date openedabout 1913
Date closedabout 1930
LocationUniversal City, California

Universal City Zoo was a private animal collection in southern California that provided animals for silent-era Universal Pictures adventure films, circus pictures, and animal comedies, and to "serve as a point of interest"[1] for tourists visiting Universal City. The animals were also leased to other studios.[2] The zoo was closed in 1930, after cinema's transition to synchronized sound complicated the existing systems for using trained animals onscreen.

  1. ^ "Calgary Herald 17 Jul 1926, page 7". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2022-12-07.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Kansas City was invoked but never defined (see the help page).