ZOO YEAR
Full length video
Please read Understanding catalogue records for help interpreting this information and Using footage for more information about accessing this film.
Title: ZOO YEAR
Reference number: 2796
Date: 1965
Director: d. Henry Cooper
Sponsor: Films of Scotland and the Royal Scottish Zoological Society
Production company: Campbell Harper Films
Sound: sound
Original format: 35mm
Colour: col
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 20.00 mins
Description: The story of a year at the Royal Scottish Zoological Society's park in Edinburgh.
Credits:
devised by G.D. Fisher, Director-Secretary of the Scottish National Zoological Park
ph. Ian Kennedy
sd. Brian Henniker
comm. s. Leonard Maguire
m. comp. & d. Martin Dalby
Shotlist:
Reel 1
gvs Edinburgh Princes Street, Castle, St. Andrews Square, Arthur's Seat, and Holyrood Palace snow-covered (1.10) shots of polar bears, camels, zebras, tigers, roe deer, four-horn sheep, snow geese, flamingoes on snow-covered ground (2.35) a keeper taking a cheetah for a walk in the spring crocuses (3.15) shots of crowned cranes, geese, ducks and Australian swans (4.23) keepers taking a young African elephant for a walk round the zoo (4.48) roe deer, European wild pigs, ibis, oyster catchers, zebras, heron, and gulls (7.20) penguins on nests with young (8.26) kangaroos and sea lions watched by spectators (10.00)
Reel 2
shots of chimps' tea party watched by spectators (1.16) penguins' parade (2.27) visitors being taken by small bus up the drive to zoo (3.09) shots of lions' and tigers' enclosures, camels being taken for a walk, an elephant, giraffe eating leaves, a cheetah in a tree, snowy owls and a pigmy hippo (5.50) the children's farm with children and animals (6.26) wallabies, beavers (8.02) penguins parade along pavement outside zoo and outside the Royal Scottish Academy (9.09) ecs (9.25)