This vintage home movie was taken sometime in the early 1960s at Dudley Zoo in the West Midlands and shows a family's day out with the animals.

The film used for this home movie was Ilford standard 8mm.

I noticed a distinct colour cast on some of the scenes at the start of the film, for example the brown bears in the pool, so it's possible that the photographer used a film which was not correctly colour balanced for daylight. It's also possible however, that the film has deteriorated over the years and one part of the film has been affected more than another.

When I initially converted the film to digital and watched it I thought it had been taken at London Zoo, but after a quick bit of internet research I discovered a picture of the entrance to Dudley Zoo and recognised the opening sequence to the film.

Still images from Dudley Zoo film

The images shown below were all taken from the film in this post and serve as sort of pictorial table of contents of the film.

Entrance to the Zoo
A Brown Bear in a Pool
Giraffe at the Zoo
A Polar Bear
Sealions at Dudley Zoo
The Penguin house

Dudley Zoo Film

The complete film is shown below. I guess in many ways it is unremarkable and shows the same sort of images that any Zoo film will show which mainly focus on the animals, but there are also some scenes of the younger members of the family and some general shots of the zoo as well.