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The Hippo Family At Home 1931
Description
"Father weighs about three tons - and a grunt."
Door of a zoo enclosure being opened and a hippo walking out into its pen. M/S of the hippo sliding down a slope into the pen. Hippo runs around its enclosure chased by a zoo keeper. "Pa has one secret sorrow - he can't get a whole meal into...
Data
- Cataloguer:
- Jenny
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Sound:
- Mute
- Media URN:
- 16700
- Sort Number:
- EP 209
- Time in/Out:
- 01:01:43:00 / 01:03:31:00
- Canister:
- EP 209
- Film ID:
- 938.02
- Issue Date:
- 09/04/1931
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