Reel Number: 221680-05
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1956
Country: Japan
Location: Tokyo
TC Begins: 18:22:30
TC Ends: 18:24:42
Duration: 00:02:12
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1956 - Japan, Hirohito & Wife Visit Zoo Motorcade of Emperor Hirohito & wife visit zoo; greeted w/ bows. Walk past cages. MCU of Snow Leopard (?). 18:23:07 Emperor & wife looking watching zookeeper feeding lion thru bars of outdoor cage. Walking past three elephants sitting up in large outdoor cage. MS of one on stump. Fed by keeper as people move on. 18:23:47 Seal dives into water, fed fish by wife. Seal climbs up onto rocky cliff & dives into water. 18:24:12 Emperor leads party walking thru zoo, waves to people watching, pan to crowd laughing & waving back. 18:24:21 Seal climbing blocks balancing doll on nose; performing w/ ball on nose. Emperor & wife watching from seats. Leashed chimpanzee dressed in skirt riding on bike, swish pan to laughing Emperor (brief). Performing Animals; Zoological Gardens; Japanese Royalty;