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The Zoo Story

The Zoo Story
Clip: 426112_1_1
Year Shot: 1966 (Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1749
Original Film: 039-049-03
HD: N/A
Location: Germany, Berlin
Timecode: 00:04:03 - 00:05:31

A passing parade of rhinos, hippos, and apes and their young at the Berlin Zoo. Mothers and children bathe, eat and cuddle together to delight the huge crowd which turns out daily to watch the amusing goings on. Rhinoceroses walking around in an open area. CU of Rhinoceroses face. Mother Hippopotamus and her little baby hippo walking down some stairs to their pond. Crowd of people some taking pictures of the Hippopotamus and her baby. MCU of Little baby Hippo standing in the water and mama looking on, yawning. Someone throws a goodie in mama's open mouth and she eats it. Crowds of people looking down at the mama Hippo and her baby. High Angle View of Mama sleeping in the water and her baby s head resting upon hers. Medium CUS - Mama Orangutan and her baby looking through the bars on their cage. Mama Orangutan waving her arm outside her cage with the little baby hanging on to her. CUS - The crowd of on-lookers with smiles on their faces, delighted by the Orangutan's behavior. Mama Orangutan testing the bars on the cage with her arms flapping up and down. Mama Orangutan with the baby in one arm while she is checking out an empty plastic bowl. Crowd of on lookers, mostly children, watch in fascination as at least three of the children look unimpressed. A grumpy looking little girl looks straight on at the camera and gives a little wave. The Orangutan puts the bowl on her head like a hat. The baby in her arms looks on seemingly amused by his or her mother s movements hangs onto her from her lap. CU of orangutan baby licking at his mother's thumb with a big smile across his face through the bars. CU of Orangutan's nose resting on a parallel bar with each eye on either side. There is a little horizontal distortion between 00.04.30-04.33.