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Pelicans at the Zoo

The famous pelican enclosure at London Zoo in Regent's Park

Documentary 1898 Silent

Overview

The British Mutoscope and Bioscope Company filmed this popular subject to be used as a projected film at the Palace Theatre and also for the Mutoscope, an individual coin-operated viewer in which 680 cards rotated on a wheel creating the sensation of movement. Similar images were filmed by the Lumiere Company in 1896.