QUIRKY / EDUCATION: Audio recordings of zoo animals made for use in schools (1936)

BRITISH PARAMOUNT NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit Various animals in London Zoo are recorded so that the audio recordings can be used to teach schoolchildren about the animal world. Full Description: ENGLAND: London: EXT **Original commentary overlaid throughout SOT** Close shots of various animals including cockatoo at microphone, pelican squawking, chimpanzees fighting over microphone and zookeeper attempting to record lion’s roar / General views of sea lion pond and recording van (caravan) behind / Close shot of sea lion barking / Keeper throwing fish into pool for sea lion as talks to him SOT / Soundman in caravan tells keeper that was OK SOT PAN to Julian Huxley (then Secretary of the Zoological Society of London) / Huxley talking about reasons behind audio recording project SOT / Good shots of sound engineer cleaning vinyl record plates on sound recording equipment (Chrome Steel Matrix) then putting the matrix into t