London Zoo
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Summary: The film depicts children and parental figures on a day out in London Zoo circa 1960s, showcasing a number of animals and children.
Title number: 20118
LSA ID: LSA/26592
Description: The film starts with a group of children beside a parent in front of a red bus.
There's a shot of children laughing and parents and children are together.
We then move onto a bus, with shots of a children.
We see the exterior of zoological gardens.
Inside the zoo there is a scene of a child's hand pointing at a map.
Throughout we follow the children walking in the zoo with parental figures and look at a variety in animals including:
A heron flapping its wings, flamingos, a panda laying on a log, elephants that eat out of the children's hands, a rhino, penguins, a gorilla, an orangutan, monkeys.
There is a scene of someone giving a large primate a drink of orange juice from a bottle.
We then move to a tray of cups of orange juice on grass then move to children and parents eating sandwiches and drinking juice outside.
We then transition to inside the zoo again, seeing a tortoise, an equine animal and the children outside and having fun. A child unfolds a sheet of paper containing bird pictures and we follow the children having fun.
Keywords: Animals; Children's activity; London Zoo
Locations: London Zoo
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