Secrets Of Nature - Playtime At The Zoo (1930)

Title reads: “Secrets of Nature - Playtime at the Zoo“. A Pro Patria presentation produced by British Instructional Films Ltd. Two birds with open beaks make a lot of noise - laughing jacquards (?). Shot of a horn billed toucan (?) jumping around on his perch put to music. Prairie marmots going in and out of their burrows. Otters jumping in and out of water to music. A lioness munches on a straw shopping bag then two lion cubs play, biting each other and generally pawing each other. Sea lions swim in their pool, their movements are edited to music. A honey bear digs a hole very close to the bars of its enclosure. Penguins walking and swimming, getting in and out of their pool. C/Us of a large penguin walking. Polar bears play with a ball in their pool. A wolf cub tries to dig under his fence. Voice over suggests he is doing it to get into the seal’s enclosure because he has no-one to play with Various shots of young seal climbing out of pool. C/U of the wolf rolling on the ground.