Baby Polar Bear 1956

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Whipsnade Zoo, Bedfordshire.

M/S of a baby Polar Bear in a pen; she is standing on a concrete 'iceberg' and stands on her hind legs to beg for her milk and honey from a bowl that keeper Frank Meakins holds aloft. The pen is surrounded by children and teenagers.

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Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Colour
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
2012
Sort Number:
CP 072
Time in/Out:
01:43:50:00 / 01:45:05:00
Canister:
CP 072
Film ID:
41.22
Issue Date:
14/05/1956

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