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13170_5030_philly_zoo

1972
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A male voice narrates about Fairmount Park, the Philadelphia Zoo, and museums over the following images and scenes: Fairmount Park ->aerial of park, Japanese tea service, a pond, sailing, horseback riders, a bike rider, an older woman feeding geese. Zoo children and adults looking at the following animals, elephants, a hippopotamus, seals, a rhinoceros, and polar bears. Cut to an adult and children digging in a stream. Cut to people passing, looking at and discussing cases of minerals in a museum. Cut to children sitting on the floor in the natural history museum, an educator presents a live owl to them. Franklin Institute train engine, children viewing a contraption and spinning on a wheel.