Census Time At The Zoo 1941

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Title reads: "Census time at the Zoo".

London Zoo, Regent's Park.

The keepers of Regents Park Zoo take their own census of the animals.

C/U of a zoo keeper writing on a clipboard. Various shots of Polar and Brown Bears in their enclosures. M/S of keeper outside lions' cage....

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Cataloguer:
Amelia
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
37740
Sort Number:
41/007
Time in/Out:
01:29:50:00 / 01:32:01:00
Canister:
41/7
Film ID:
1067.22
Issue Date:
23/01/1941

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