https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/ad6e59ca-845b-41f4-9a08-81db0a40dce3 This silent, 1930s German film "Animal Care in the Zoo" shows the pioneering Stellingen Zoo (aka Stellingen Animal Park and now called the Tierpark Hagenbeck), which was founded in 1902 by Carl Hagenbeck. The zoo opened in 1907, and was famous for introducing panoramic, barless enclosures that mimicked natural habitats. During the Bombing of Hamburg in WWII the version of the zoo seen in the film was destroyed; after the war it was rebuilt. Today, the private zoo is still run by the Hagenbeck family. It remains a historic, iconic attraction known for its innovative approach to animal display and, historically, for its "Nordland" panorama. 00:00 The film begins with white aplacas being brought into the zoo in a crate aboard a truck, and then kept in quarantine. At 1:22, a veterinarian provides medical treatment. At 2:42, the tasks of zookeepers are shown: scrubbing enclosures, giving polar bears a bath, giving an elephant a pedicure, and at 4:49, feeding. This includes having a butcher cut up an animal carcass for food. At 5:37, the zookeeper approaches a caged lion and feeds it, a lioness and a jaguar. At 6:28, a bengal tiger roams the enclosure. At 6:44, a black bear is fed in its cage, and at 7:27 a walrus poses for the camera and is then fed by the keeper. At 9:31, an elephant seal is shown. At 10;14 the card says, "The humans sometimes replace the mother" as the keepers are shown feeding baby goats, a chimp, and other animals by bottle. The Tierpark Hagenbeck began in 1863 with animals that belonged to Carl Hagenbeck Sr., a fishmonger who became an amateur animal collector. The park itself was founded by Carl Hagenbeck Jr. in 1907. It is known for being the first zoo to use open enclosures surrounded by moats, rather than barred cages, to better approximate animals' natural environments. These "panoramas" used a clever technique of moats which were concealed from viewers. The first moat might feature seals and walruses in a pool, and beyond the moat were reindeer, and beyond a second hidden moat were polar bears. By hiding the moats, the animals appeared to be together in one landscape. Hagenbeck also revolutionized the layout of zoos, grouping his animals by species, something that had not been done before. Hagenbeck called his design an animal paradise where "animals would live beside each other in harmony and where the fight for survival would be eliminated". Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. For almost two decades, we've worked to collect, scan and preserve the world as it was captured on 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have endangered films you'd like to have scanned, or wish to donate celluloid to Periscope Film so that we can share them with the world, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the weblink below. This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD and 2k/4k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNh4-vfc-EY Mirrored from Periscope Film (https://www.youtube.com/@PeriscopeFilm) Sat, 13 Jun 2026 05:32:22 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.dngr.us https://peertube.dngr.us/lazy-static/avatars/41a6fee9-7f57-42d0-a5fc-5db4f1af2e31.png https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/ad6e59ca-845b-41f4-9a08-81db0a40dce3 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.dngr.us/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.