Baby Seal Beware - Other Colour Pics Share This Title (1958)

Chessington Zoo, Kingston Upon Thames, Surrey. Exterior. M/S of a mother seal and her baby on a man-made rock within a zoo enclosure. The mother catches a fish in her mouth thrown for her by a zookeeper out of shot. The baby, named Liz is seven months old and was christened by the actress, Elizabeth Seal. M/S of a seal struggling to climb over a wire fence in another enclosure. A panning shot follows the seal as he gets over the fence, eats a fish and lollops down the visitors pathway to get to the enclosure of the mother and baby. He climbs over the fence and slithers into the pool. M/S of the mother and baby still on the rock. The baby seal jumps from the rock into the pool to meet the trespassing seal, her father. C/U of the father and daughter frolicking in the pool. The narrator explains “the reason for his ingenuity - a wife and delightful offspring in the adjoining pool“. M/S of the keeper standing on a rock throwing fish from a bucket for the family of seals. Various shots
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