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Interview 14192 – Caption Index: 53

No, no, no. Well, it’d be too expensive to send them back. Read More

Interview 14192 – Caption Index: 51

I think you probably don’t have a picture because it’s on bad. Effectively happened during the filming of Zoo Parade. Yes. When you were doing that Lincoln Park, there was one incident where you were working with a poisonous or a hot snake, and you were bitten, could you kind… Read More

Interview 14192 – Caption Index: 50

And then he turned around and looked at him, and I said, why don’t you turn around let us see your face again, and so he did. So you really had. You got things like that. Yeah, it was all at lib, we had a so called script which was… Read More

Interview 14192 – Caption Index: 49

Well, I expect so, and I guess by this time, Wild Kingdom, is the longest, they say it’s the longest running syndicated half hour program with the same sponsor, mutual of Omaha of course. Now when you were at Lincoln Park and doing Zoo Parade, and I was one of… Read More

Interview 14192 – Caption Index: 48

Well, it must have been pretty good concept because am I correct, that that’s the longest running animal show that’s, I mean, from Zoo Parade starting with yourself to Wild Kingdom?… Read More

Interview 14192 – Caption Index: 46

and I said, I just saw your unit down at the, why don’t we bring that after the zoo?… Read More

Interview 14192 – Caption Index: 47

So she said, okay, I’ll see what I can do, then I got the sad work that it was too expensive, they didn’t have enough funds to do it, so I said, well, bye guys, if they can take it down to the museum of science and industry and do… Read More

Interview 14192 – Caption Index: 45

They said, this is for WBKB, and it’s a remote control unit, then we’re beaming a program out from here from, so I went back and asked the director, I went back to telephone the director. Read More

Interview 14192 – Caption Index: 44

And I had to get the same answer, oh, shrug a shoulder, you talk until you run out of steam, or until the animals get tired, you run out of animals, and then Margie will give a chalk talk or play the organ or do something else, there were a… Read More

Interview 14192 – Caption Index: 43

Well, I would, before I would start the program that evening, whichever evening it was, I’d say, how long do you want the program to go?… Read More

Interview 14192 – Caption Index: 41

Zoo Parade?… Read More

Interview 14192 – Caption Index: 42

Yeah. When I came here in 1944, it was only a year later, the war was going on, and I met a director from television station and that station was WBKB, it was run by a man named Bill Eddie, and it was the only television station I had ever… Read More

Interview 14192 – Caption Index: 40

You’re very well known for Zoo Parade and Wild Kingdom now, it started in Lincoln Park, how did it start?… Read More

Interview 14192 – Caption Index: 38

Raja. Raja, yeah. Well, unusual names, but they turned out to be alright. It’s interesting in some of the old films though, that you, maybe that’s just the way it was programmed, but the one that seemed to have most of the attention was Sinbad, or seemed to be kind… Read More

Interview 14192 – Caption Index: 39

Now you’re up to your ears and gorillas, and I think it’s great that you are, that’s actually one of the concepts about zoos that has changed, in the early days you’d have one specimen, you’d have two specimens on occasion, that’s all you felt you needed, but that concept… Read More

Interview 14192 – Caption Index: 37

So Lotus, Sinbad, and what was the other?… Read More

Interview 14192 – Caption Index: 36

When it came in out there. It it just came in as a surprise, and I got permission then from the head of that department to increase my permit for three to four, and he said, you might as well take this one along too, and of course that turned… Read More

Interview 14192 – Caption Index: 34

They said, sure, we can radio there, and they could relay the message, and I knew the hotel where they were, so we were all set, so the message was that, at this moment Marlin Perkins is in a TWA playing with four gorillas flying over Boston, heading for Chicago,… Read More

Interview 14192 – Caption Index: 35

How did you decide, when did you decide to take the fourth animal?… Read More

Interview 14192 – Caption Index: 33

And so this is what happened, so I made application for three rather than just one, and I was hoping to get both sexes and perhaps one day we’d be lucky enough to get babies, ’cause they’d never been born in captivity, and we were looking ahead for the future… Read More

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