Children’s Zoo

Series

Series Name

Colour Pictorial

Issue

Issue No.

618

Date Released

27 Oct 1966

Date recorded

30 Sep 1966

Length of issue (in feet)

680

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Fibre Glass Menagerie
2. 2Children’s Zoo
3. 3Sand Yacht Championships

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 3

Summary

Pathe synopsis: But the fun can be quite serious at Colwyn Bay’s Welsh Mountain zoo where manager Bob Jackson collects birds of prey. But the real attraction is for children - it’s a real children’s zoo where they can feed anything from a giant sixty-year-old tortoise, that’s made friends with a chimp, to a pool full of river trout. But when it comes to the baby whale this is a bottle job and they take care this tiny giant doesn’t feel like a fish out of water ...

Keywords

Animals

Written sources

Pathe Colour Pictorial Lobby Cards   Used for synopsis

Credits:

Commentator

Wilfrid Thomas

Length of story (in feet)

210

Story extras:

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