Edinburgh Zoo 1930

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Edinburgh Zoo, Scotland.

Full titles read: "Two minutes in EDINBURGH ZOO"

Intertitle reads: "Sinuous sea denizens."

L/S's of crowds of people watching several seals diving off rocks into small pool of water.

Intertitle reads: "Eats - anywhere and from any angle."

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Data

Cataloguer:
Howard
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
36809
Sort Number:
PT 030
Time in/Out:
01:45:51:00 / 01:47:55:00
Canister:
PT 030
Film ID:
1018.16
Issue Date:
20/10/1930

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