LION BREAKS LOOSE ON FILM SET.—The keeper, Mr Douglas Petrie, hangs on grimly to the chain-and-rope leash of Chaka, the 3501b young lion, which broke loose at Pinewood Film Studios, in Buckinghamshire, on September 15, and terrorised 1000 film workers for nearly an hour. The lion broke away three times, and ran snarling through the studio, causing visitors and technicians to flee. Nobody was injured. The lion is one of more than 100 animals hired for the Elizabeth Taylor film, “Cleopatra,” and has to lie at Miss Taylor’s feet in the picture. Chaka was finally cornered in the woods behind the studio and taken back to the animal pens.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29315, 21 September 1960, Page 7
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109LION BREAKS LOOSE ON FILM SET.—The keeper, Mr Douglas Petrie, hangs on grimly to the chain-and-rope leash of Chaka, the 3501b young lion, which broke loose at Pinewood Film Studios, in Buckinghamshire, on September 15, and terrorised 1000 film workers for nearly an hour. The lion broke away three times, and ran snarling through the studio, causing visitors and technicians to flee. Nobody was injured. The lion is one of more than 100 animals hired for the Elizabeth Taylor film, “Cleopatra,” and has to lie at Miss Taylor’s feet in the picture. Chaka was finally cornered in the woods behind the studio and taken back to the animal pens. Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29315, 21 September 1960, Page 7
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