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Title: BERNE / ZURICH

Reference number: 6475

Date: 1956*

Director: [filmed by Don Elliott (?)]

Sound: silent

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 5.23 mins

Description: Amateur general views of Berne and Zurich in Switzerland, including visit to zoo.

Shotlist: Elevated view rooftops of Berne (?), river (0.16) older children watching 'Lift Electrique'. Gvs street (0.52) statue of soldier, gvs streets (1.10) statue of man on horse (1.12) horse drawn cart (1.18) people watching pelicans at zoo on sunny day (1.32) rhinoceros (1.50) woman with goat, feeding goats (2.17) bear (2.29) monkeys (2.40) tiger (2.42) 3 boys sitting on balcony, sketching building (3.02) zookeeper feeding bear a bottle in enclosure, pan people looking into bear pit. Bears emerge, sit and stand for food to be thrown to them (3.47) statue of man, large lake in b/ground, gvs waterside area (4.05) swans on pavement, woman feeding them. gvs park with vista over city (5.12) brief tracking shot from train (5.23)