In den dierentuin van Antwerpen (1910) watch online HD

This one-reel documentary about the Antwerp zoological gardens is interesting for the wide variety of animals shown in it, the advanced and amiable manner in which the less ferocious beasts are housed, the constant and eternal crowds in front of the monkey house and the fact that you can learn a good deal of Dutch vocabulary by checking out the captions. It's like an alphabet book for animals in Dutch.

views of zoos had been popular since the beginning of cinema. One of the Lumiere's earlier films was 1896's "Lion, London Zoological Garden:, With the passage of time, these short actualities needed to be linked into longer films and become parts of features. Here's an intermediate stage.