Lion, London Zoological Gardens (1896)

Original title

Lion

Directed by

Alexandre Promio

Genre

documentary film, silent film

Country

France

Runtime

1 min

Rating

5.3 of 10 from 74 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a very early silent film from 1896. It shows a male lion in a zoo reaching through its cage bars for meat that a keeper throws to it.

shortsilentobservationalstraightforwardhistoricsimpleblack-and-white

What happens

Lion, London Zoological Gardens (French: Lions, Jardin zoologique, Londres) is an 1896 French short black-and-white silent actuality film, produced by Auguste and Louis Lumière and directed by Alexandre Promio, featuring a male lion reaching through the bars of its enclosure at London Zoological Gardens to get at the meat thrown by its keeper. The film was part of a series, including Tigers and Pelicans, which were one of the earliest examples of animal life on film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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