Zoo Vet
Series
- Series Name
- Colour Pictorial
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 2 / 3
- Summary
- Pathe synopsis: From milk - to milk teeth and, at Chessington Zoo, one of the elephants has a 1 1/2 lb milk tooth that is loose. The zoo vet becomes elephant’s dentist and, then, chiropodist to the penguins who have got corns through walking on concrete. He takes a lolly stick out of a pelican’s throat and tries to give a tiger some paw ointment before turning the hose of a hippo and washing the brute.
- Keywords
- Health and medicine; Animals
- Locations
- London; England; Kingston upon Thames; Chessington; Chessington Zoo
- Written sources
- Pathe Colour Pictorial Lobby Cards Used for synopsis
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Tim Brinton
- Length of story (in feet)
- 281
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How to cite this record
'Zoo Vet', Colour Pictorial Issue No. 446, 14 Jul 1963. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/121404 (Accessed 01 Feb 2025)