News on Screen

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

375A

Date Released

13 Aug 1936

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Goodwill
• 2. Reports: New Luxury Liner for Australasia
• 3. Reports: Boy Scouts groom a gigantic horse, the chalk figure of George III at Weymouth
• 4. Reports: Coney Island Venus
• 5. Reports: The Glorious Twelfth
• 6. Reports: Mystery Air crash near Croydon
• 7. Zoo News
• 8. Fashions
• 9. Olympics: Reported by Alan Howland

Story

Story No. within this Issue

7 / 9

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Zoo News From Sydney Inventory man finds hard task. DESCRIPTION: Inventory man finds task too difficult in Sydney Zoo says Barry Barnes. SHOTLIST: Shot of head keeper with Giraffes. Shot of kookaburras in a row. Birds in aviary fly around. Shot of the keeper handling snakes. Shot of three leopard cubs with keeper. Shot of the Orang-utan climbing around. Also with keeper on the ground. Shot of spider monkeys capering about. The keeper gives it up as a bad job.

Keywords

Curiosities; Animals

Footage sources

Movietone

Card file number

4694

Credits:

Commentator

Barry K. Barnes

Length of story (in feet)

83

Story extras:

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