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Title: EDINBURGH ZOO

Reference number: 6633

Date: 1950 c

Sound: silent

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 14.14 mins

Description: Amateur overview animals at Edinburgh Zoo in the early fifties. General views and intertitles throughout.

Shotlist: Title (0.11) brief view ext. zoo (0.15) This 'zoo'. opened in 1913, was a pioneer in naturalistic methods of exhibition (0.22) the sea-lions are near the entrance (0.29) gvs same (1.18) Gannets share the quarters of the sea-lions (1.22) gvs same (1.33) The swift movements of the otter are not easy to follow (1.40) gvs same (2.08) the polar bears are playful (2.11) gvs same (3.12) 'It's buns we want!' (3.15) gvs black bears in rocky enclosure, standing on hind quarters (4.15) The baboon rock (4.17) sign, gvs baboons (4.51) Daniel never knew a lions' den like this (4.55) gvs same (5.29) Spacious quarters for wolves, hyenas and some of the 'cat' tribe (5.37) gvs same, leopards etc (7.32) The wolf wood is so large that the animals lead a natural life (7.41) gvs same (8.39) zebras as tame as horses (8.43) gvs same (9.27) This 'zoo' is renowned for its colony of penguins (9.34) gvs same (10.10) Ringed penguins, probably the first exhibited alive in Europe (10.16) gvs same (10.33) Rare king penguins (10.36) gvs same (11.38) And now come to the chimpanzee's tea party (11.44) gvs same, two chained chimps at table, lady joins them (14.07) Here we must leave them (14.12) The End (14.14)