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DetailsOriginal Format: 16mm Colour: Colour Sound: Silent Duration: 9 mins Credits: Cyril and Betty Ramsden
Subject: ENTERTAINMENT / LEISURE
Summary This film contains footage of a trip that Betty and Cyril Ramsden made to Whipsnade Zoo in Bedfordshire. The couple were semi-professional filmmakers filming both for pleasure and taking on commissions from companies such as the Yorkshire Evening Post.
Description
This film contains footage of a trip that Betty and Cyril Ramsden made to Whipsnade Zoo in Bedfordshire. The couple were semi-professional filmmakers filming both for pleasure and taking on commissions from companies such as the Yorkshire Evening Post.
Title-A Ramshead Film
Title-Twentieth Century Arc
There is a shot of a lion that has been carved into a chalk hill, and there are road signs for various places including Whipsnade Zoo.
Betty and a friend enter the zoo.
Title-Sanctuary for...
This film contains footage of a trip that Betty and Cyril Ramsden made to Whipsnade Zoo in Bedfordshire. The couple were semi-professional filmmakers filming both for pleasure and taking on commissions from companies such as the Yorkshire Evening Post.
Title-A Ramshead Film
Title-Twentieth Century Arc
There is a shot of a lion that has been carved into a chalk hill, and there are road signs for various places including Whipsnade Zoo.
Betty and a friend enter the zoo.
Title-Sanctuary for birds of many lands
Firstly at the bird sanctuary, a group of flamingos stand together in a pond, and then some visitors feed the emus through a fence. There are also shots of a brown bear being fed and some monkeys running around their enclosure.
Title-Wallabies Roam at Will
Two wallabies are hopping around their enclosure, and one hops after the other. A two-humped camel, several types of deer, buffalo and zebra are also wandering around their various enclosures.
Title-Dry cleaning while you wait
A wild buffalo roams around a field before writhing in the dirt to 'clean itself'.
Title-These animals are dangerous.
There is footage of large cats in their enclosures.
Title-The End.