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  1. Baby Animals

    Date released
    6 Apr 1967
    Series name
    Colour Pictorial
    Issue no
    641
    NoS ID
    121863
    Story no
    1 / 3
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Pathe synopsis: At Twycross Zoo in Leicestershire they train animals for TV commercials, but the animals don’t only learn, they teach. At Twycross human beings make friends with baby elephants, apes and...

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  2. Chester ‘Purification and Doctors’, The (1983 Video)

    Director
    Meg Twycross
    Producer
    David Blacow; Michael Bowen
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 33 min.

    A television performance of the Chester mystery play. It tells how the aged Simeon is finally convinced by a miracle that Christ will be born of a Virgin, how he at last receives the infant Christ in the...

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  3. Zoo in the House

    Date released
    29 Jan 1968
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    2017
    NoS ID
    027226
    Story no
    4 / 7

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Zoo in the House. DESCRIPTION: Keepers at Twycross Zoo near Leicester find they’ve got Leopards in the living room and chimps all over the Chintz. It’s a zoo with that domestic...

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  4. Chimps Tea Party

    Date released
    26 Mar 1978
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    2547
    NoS ID
    031123
    Story no
    5 / 5

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Chimps Tea Party. DESCRIPTION: When the Chimps at Twycross Zoo have a tea party they do it with style. SHOTLIST: MCU sign ‘Twycross Zoo’ - chimp on bike rides past - pan. MS chimp...

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  5. Gorilla Takes a Bath

    Date released
    23 Feb 1967
    Series name
    Colour Pictorial
    Issue no
    635
    NoS ID
    121852
    Story no
    4 / 4
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Pathe synopsis: At Twycross Zoo in Leicestershire. Joe, the baby gorilla, takes a bath each day in zoo director Molly Badham’s bathroom. And if you haven’t seen a gorilla taking to the water, with a...

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  6. Training Animals

    Date released
    3 Mar 1966
    Series name
    Colour Pictorial
    Issue no
    584
    NoS ID
    121734
    Story no
    1 / 1
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Pathe synopsis: A chimp’s tea party at Twycross Zoo, Leicestershire, starts a story of animal training that goes around the world. These chimps are born mimics and quickly enact the most complicated...

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  7. Bestiary, The (1987 Video)

    Subject
    Art; Biology; English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 28 min., 1993 sale: £15.00 (+p&p)

    The Bestiary is the standard medieval encyclopaedia of animals, laid out like a modern one with a picture of the creature accompanied by information on size, colouring, habitat, gestation periods, and other...

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  8. Fulgens and Lucres, By Henry Medwall (1985 Video)

    Director
    Med Twycross
    Subject
    Drama; English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 55 min., 1993 sale: £15

    A shortened version for television of ‘the earliest romantic comedy in English’(c.1490). Set in the Ancient Rome of romance, it tells how Lucres, the heroine, sets her two suitors, a rich aristocrat and...

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