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Film & Video Catalogue: Item Detail

Film Number

6920

Title

[CHILDREN'S PARTY, WHIPSNADE ZOO SCENES]

Producer

Cyril Parkinson

Date

1933-34

Gauge

16mm

Colour

b/w & colour

Sound

silent

Running Time

13 mins 55 secs

Description

Scenes showing a children's tea party with shots of youngsters and adults playing games and competing in races on the lawn of a country house. Includes interior shots of children sat at tables eating as mothers pass around party food. Continues with a visit to Whipsnade Zoo with shots of animals in parkland and in enclosures. A brief sequence shows night shots of neon advertisments lit up in Blackpool, followed by a caged bear playing on a ledge and with rope in the interior of a tower. Concludes with colour footage of flamingoes, bears, pelicans and tigers at Whipsnade Zoo and children taking a ride on a camel.

 

 



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