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Title: LION TAMING

Reference number: 9859

Date: 1956c

Production company: [ Templar?]

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 9.24 mins

Description: Footage of Helena and Frank Farrar, possibly at Southport Zoo as they introduce a TV presenter to a cage of lions and a leopard.

This looks like footage taken for the BBC programme 'The Smokey Club' which ran a feature on 'How to House-train a Lion' (27 October 1956) featuring Frank Farrar. See http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/5a2fa6c8e2f4451580116850b1cfc5ee [last accessed 27/07/2020]

See also related film at ref. 9860

Credits: [presenter Helena Farrar, Frank Farrar]

Shotlist: [no title] - gvs in lion cage at zoo, possibly at Southport - Frank Farrar and TV presenter play with young lions, presenter strokes paw of closest one - Frank and presenter walk away, Helena Farrar brings bag tied to rope - presenter throws it towards lions who play with it (2.09) Frank inside cage with lions, presenter enters cage with brush, pretends to sweep floor, lions play with brush and shovel - lion catches presenter's jacket sleeve with its paw - lions play with brush - Frank talks to lions and they nuzzle his wrist (6.31) presenter pulls bag on rope while Helena and Frank look on - Helena comes into cage - c/u shots lions - lions playing with bag on rope and brush (8.44) Helena and presenter in zoo enclosure with leopard on leash, presenter pets leopard, then gets up and walks away - brief shot lions in enclosure (9.24)