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City Zoo, Completed At Cost of $3,000,000, Opened by Governor

Reel Number: 221321-26

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1934

Country: USA

Location: Brookfield Zoo,Chicago,Illinois

TC Begins: 18:05:24

TC Ends: 18:06:51

Duration: 00:01:27

City Zoo, Completed At Cost of $3,000,000, Opened by Governor 18:05:33 Large crowd from behind, watching covered speakers stand draped w/ bunting. 18:05:40 Men seated on stage laughing (includes Gov. Henry Horner); LS of crowd. 18:05:52 People walking past large concrete lion’s pen w/ tree & plants & moat. Lions walking about. 18:06:12 Elephant (Ziggy ?) in concrete enclosure w/ pool. Keeper walks up to elephant. 18:06:24 Four bears, two watching people, another in water of pool. 18:06:31 Woman in pen beside two large alligators or crocodiles; picks up head of one. 18:06:41 Zoo keeper in pen watching alligator in water; large tortoises. 18:06:44 Zoo keeper holding small penguin. Chicago Zoological Garden Opening; Brookfield Zoo; 1934;

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