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Bostock Arena and Jungle? (Location?)



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The Bostock Arena and Jungle, part of David Horsley's Centaur motion picture studio and animal attraction in Los Angeles, c. 1915. "The Moving Picture World" of 28 August 1915 reported on page 1457: "The animal subjects will be filmed in the hexagonal arena in Mr. Horsley's new plant in Los Angeles, built especially to facilitate staging such productions. This arena is arranged in six sections of fan-like shape each with a background to give the locale of the scene to pictures. . . . The players in the animal pictures will work face to face with the brute performers without the precaution afforded by bars, wires, nets, etc., either of which precaution has generally been used in animal pictures heretofore. The only avenue of escape the players have is a moat surrounding an island at the hub of the arena. The camera is stationed on the island, from which point the director oversees the production."http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Cont...ails=R:IM96401