SHOT AT THE ZOO

Rights Information
Year
1955
Reference
F42562
Media type
Moving image
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Rights Information
Year
1955
Reference
F42562
Media type
Moving image
Item unavailable online
Place of production
New Zealand/Aotearoa
Categories
Amateur
Duration
0:08:45

(COL) Title: ‘Shot at the zoo’. Title: ‘Brown bear’; (B&W) Shots of bear. Title: ‘Polar bears’; Shots of polar bears. Plaque attached to enclosure: ‘Sloth bear....’; shot of bear. Bird. Three boys looking at caged animals . Dog gnawing bone. (COL) Woman sitting on low stone wall. Plaque on enclosure: ‘Paradise duck....’; duck. Pheasant. Flamingoes. [Otters]. Penguins. Children getting into howdah; shots of elephant ride. Shots of peacocks. Family walking through zoo. Shots of exotic birds. Emu. Shots of hippopotami in and out of water. Title: ‘Wide open spaces!’; hippopotamus, children riding in zoo train styled as a rocket ship, crowds, bison, stork. Title: ‘Monkey tricks’; Shots of crowd and performing chimpanzees; shots in enclosure [oranagutans]. Crowd watching seals; seals performing. Title: ‘The End’.