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Topical Budget 867-2: Budding Landseers (1928)
 

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9/4/1928
35mm, black and white, 65 feet
 
Production CompanyTopical Film Company

Children draw bears, tigers and lions at London Zoo.

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A record of what is presumably a school outing, in which assorted children sit or stand in neat rows, pads in hand, to sketch various zoo animals, who obligingly adopt various poses. Intercut with these are images of the actual sketches, of bears, lions and tigers.

The reference in the title is to Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (1802-73), the great Victorian animal painter and sculptor, whose many paintings of dogs, horses and stags caught the spirit of the age. He is also renowned for the famous lion statues in Trafalgar Square.

Michael Brooke

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