Zoo Aka Pretoria Zoo - Children’s Day (1940)

Pretoria zoo - children’s day. Pretoria, South Africa. Various shots of a large party of school children looking at parrots, pelicans, lions, monkeys, rhinoceros and hippos. Good shots as they ride on the elephant and laugh. They play with the orang-utan which is on a lead at the zoo. C/U of the orang-utan looking very sad. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to the end of 1984. All footage can be viewed on the British Pathé website.