Just Training.. [sic] (1940)

Titles read: “JUST TRAINING.. [sic]“. St Louis, Missouri, United States of America. Various shots at St Louis Zoo shows leopards and lionesses being trained to perform tricks in a circular cage. A large crowd of people stand outside watching as the big cats do a circus style act of walking on rolling barrels and jumping over each other. We then see elephants being trained to dance while one of them turns a music box handle with its trunk. The music is ’I’m A Little Teapot’. Cataloguer’s note: could be viewed as being degrading to the animals. 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 Paramo