Jones: Twycross Zoo and Army Display

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Summary

Home movie from the Jones family from Nottingham including a visit to Twycross Zoo and an army display at Bakewell Showground.

Year:

1969

Duration:

0:04:00

Film type:

Colour / Silent

Genre:

Home Movie

Master format:

8mm

Description

Views taken at Twycross Zoo showing lions wandering free, apes in a cage and large tortoises in an enclosure. Next on Skegness beach we see two boys in swimming trunks jumping over a hole they’ve dug, a woman walks towards the camera. For the final section we see an event at Bakewell Showground in Derbyshire. Genadier Guards march across the showground (filmed from within the crowd. We then see army helicopters flying over the site, they land and uniformed soldiers jump out for a display with smoke bombs. Others parachute in.


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