| TRAVELAUGHS - AT THE ZOO Animals and Sketches of People who Resemble them | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 6790 |
| Catalog #: | 444652 | |
| Clip Number: | 444652-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | EP 276 | |
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| Location: | London, England | |
| Year Shot: | 1930 (Estimated Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | ANIMALS/GENERAL: Zoos/Animal Parks/Aquariums | |
| Description: | TRAVELAUGHS - AT THE ZOO Cartoons and live action combined to mildly amusing effect - various zoo animals featured. London CU (real) bottle of ink slides into view along bottom of screen. Animated fountain of ink spurts up from it and makes a splat; face of a lion fades in in center, with the splat as the mane. Changes to shot of a real live lion walking toward camera, coming through doorway in stone wall of his zoo pen. Lion turns, walks to left. MLS tiger standing in similar pen w/ rock wall. Rhinoceros comes bounding toward camera across fenced enclosure attached to corner of zoo building. CU rhino eating from human's hand. Sketches of humans and the animals they resemble. Cartoon of gentleman in black tie and tails. MS penguin walks across rock floor of pen and jumps into water. Sketch of old man w/ odd shaped face...fade to MCU hippopotamus in place of the sketch. Pan following hippo as it turns rt., walks. CU artist's hand w/ narrow tipped brush paints very light vague features of a face. CU artist drawing sketch in ink over this of forbidding old man in tophat, sharp eyes, hooked nose. Fdes to CU vulture looking around. animals, zoo, art, artist, sketches, cartoons, lion, tiger, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, vulture, penguin, humor, jokes | |
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