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Zoo News

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
375A
Date Released
13 Aug 1936
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Goodwill
  2. 2Reports: New Luxury Liner for Australasia
  3. 3Reports: Boy Scouts groom a gigantic horse, the chalk figure of George III at Weymouth
  4. 4Reports: Coney Island Venus
  5. 5Reports: The Glorious Twelfth
  6. 6Reports: Mystery Air crash near Croydon
  7. 7Zoo News
  8. 8Fashions
  9. 9Olympics: Reported by Alan Howland

Story

Story No. within this Issue
7 / 9
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Zoo News From Sydney Inventory man finds hard task. DESCRIPTION: Inventory man finds task too difficult in Sydney Zoo says Barry Barnes. SHOTLIST: Shot of head keeper with Giraffes. Shot of kookaburras in a row. Birds in aviary fly around. Shot of the keeper handling snakes. Shot of three leopard cubs with keeper. Shot of the Orang-utan climbing around. Also with keeper on the ground. Shot of spider monkeys capering about. The keeper gives it up as a bad job.
Keywords
Curiosities; Animals
Footage sources
Movietone
Card file number
4694
Credits:
Commentator
Barry K. Barnes
Length of story (in feet)
83
Story extras:

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