Animal Museum

Series

Series Name

Colour Pictorial

Issue

Issue No.

531

Date Released

25 Feb 1965

Date recorded

22 Jan 1965

Length of issue (in feet)

726

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Plastic Skeletons
2. 2Animal Museum
3. 3Silversmith

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 3

Summary

Pathe synopsis: At Bramber, near Brighton, there’s a collection of furry animals that might have stepped out of the pictures in a Beatrix Potter book. It was a taxidermist called Walter Potter who created these tableaux of animal fantasy in his spare time. His "Who Killed Cock Robin" scene, complete with every little furry friend imaginable, took him seven years to create. Come to the Potter Museum and you see squirrels carousing and every sort of fur-lined dolls in action which spell out the daydreams of a kindergarten child. The things people make.

Keywords

Arts and crafts; Animals

Locations

England; East Sussex; Bramber

Written sources

Pathe Colour Pictorial Lobby Cards   Used for synopsis

Credits:

Commentator

Richard Norton

Length of story (in feet)

183

Story extras:

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