Home Zoo (1959)

Effingham Common, Leatherhead, Surrey. High angle C/U shot of a food basket being carried on woman’s hand (her skirt is seen as well). Some oranges, bananas, bread, lady’s purse and few other items can be seen in it. Camera pans to show a bucket full of fish (herrings) in the other hand. L/S of an elderly woman carrying basket and bucket and a boy and a girl running towards her. There is a black car with wide opened doors behind her. Boy takes the fish bucket and the girls takes the food basket. Boy carries the bucket into area bounded with fence. Camera pans to show a seal lying next to the pool. M/S of a boy throwing a fish into pool. C/U shot of the seal. Fantastic big sad eyes! M/S of the seal jumping into pool and the boy feeds it. Boy’s name is Tim Short and seal’s Nautilus. They are in boy’s grandfather’s home zoo. Mr W. G. Kingham started the zoo ten years ago and considers it a hobby. A girl (Tim’s sister Sarah Jane Short) feeds ducks and swans, and Tim joins her. Cut to the girl looking at