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Chessington

Zoo

zoos

animals

monkeys

Llamas

sea

lions

bears

elephants

penguins

zebras

children

models

villages

Wendy

Snazle

Ernest

Engler

Film ID:
43.13
Media URN:
2032
Group:
Colour pictorials

Archive:
British Pathé
Issue Date:
25/06/1956
Sound:
Sound

HD Format:
Available on request

Stock:
Colour
Duration:
00:02:24:00
Time in/Out:
01:25:18:00 / 01:27:42:00
Canister:
CP 078

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Chessington Zoo where young girl lives amongst the animals.
Chessington Zoo, Chessington, Surrey.

Chessington Zoo is where Wendy Snazle lives, the daughter of the General Manager. She is surrounded by animals. Shots of Wendy in front of their big medieval house and loads of animals in front garden. She puts a banana on a table for a monkey which is on a lead. She cuddles a foal and cut to shot of Llama eating grass. Ernest Engler, the head keeper, takes … more
Chessington Zoo, Chessington, Surrey.

Chessington Zoo is where Wendy Snazle lives, the daughter of the General Manager. She is surrounded by animals. Shots of Wendy in front of their big medieval house and loads of animals in front garden. She puts a banana on a table for a monkey which is on a lead. She cuddles a foal and cut to shot of Llama eating grass. Ernest Engler, the head keeper, takes Wendy with him on his feeding rounds. Shots of sea lions being fed with fish which the keeper throws at them. Top shot of huge bear in a cage. His food is put on a tray which he drags under the cage. Feeding an elephant with food on a tray which she picks up in her trunk and throws. Brief shot of lions in a cage.

Some penguins are seen walking through a model village which was bought from Ferndown Zoo in Bournemouth. Quick shot of a zebra looking over a wall and then M/S penguin pool. The penguins are fed fish by the keeper and young girl, although they refuse the fish from the child and only take it from Uncle Ernest.
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Human zoos: The Western world’s shameful secret, 1900-1958

i think the family with elephant was taken from Bangladesh. at that time it was eastern part of India. their clothes are familiar.

They always think that their race is dominant that they can just easily made those people as their slaves. Im a filipino and im shocked of what i've read. The People needs to read this article. Such an eye opener.

The cruelty of westerners, I'm proud of our indigenous people Igorots that up to this day are still keeping their culture in Philippines. The world has evolved and this is a past mistake that shouldn't be put back in the mind of the new generation to create hate.

I know that civilization was very unfair in its advances technologically. But, to be so horrid to other humans for amusement is unconscionable. I am glad this behavior is available to see in photos. It drives home the point of how cruel people can be to others. I did look at all of the images because I'm a photog but I am appalled! We have come so far with our technological achievements but are still so warped in our moral development. It explains a lot of our current heinous behavior. We keep blowing our chance to be so much better! Our failures greatly outnumber our goodness. We are such sad, wrenched people.

Thank you for publishing this. We need to see more of the ugly side of humanity in the past and the present. We are capable of wonderful things, but too often we gravitate towards disgusting, ignorant and despicable behaviour that is permitted because we are only 'watching' (and not doing something about it).
From the treatment of 'other' people, to animals and to our Mother Earth even today. As long as we do nothing and let it continue, we are perpetrators of horror in far away places as well as next door.

A big part of the problem is that when people gather in groups, they behave like a herd with a mob mentality and are easily swayed by influential manipulators.
Filipinos are pictured in loincloths sitting in a circle together at Coney Island in New York in the early 20th century while crowds of Americans watch on from behind barriers.
These shocking rare photographs show how so-called ‘ human zoos ‘ around the world kept ‘primitive natives’ in enclosures so Westerners could gawp and jeer at them. The horrifying images, some of which were taken as recently as 1958, show how black and Asian people were cruelly treated as exhibits that attracted millions of tourists.
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Western world was desperate to see the “savage,” “primitive” people described by explorers and adventurers scouting out new lands for colonial exploitation.
To feed the frenzy, thousands of indigenous individuals from Africa, Asia, and the Americas were brought to the United States and Europe, often under dubious circumstances, to be put on display in a quasi-captive life in “human zoos.”
Human zoos could be found in Paris, Hamburg, Antwerp, Barcelona, London, Milan, and New York City. Carl Hagenbeck, a merchant in wild animals and future entrepreneur of many zoos in Europe, decided in 1874 to exhibit Samoan and Sami people as “purely natural” populations.
In 1876, he sent a collaborator to the Egyptian Sudan to bring back some wild beasts and Nubians. The Nubian exhibit was very successful in Europe and toured Paris, London, and Berlin.
In 1880, Hagenbeck dispatched an agent to Labrador to secure a number of Esquimaux (Eskimo / Inuit) from the Moravian mission of Hebron; these Inuit were exhibited in his Hamburg Tierpark.
Other ethnological expositions included Egyptian and Bedouin mock settlements. Hagenbeck would also employ agents to take part in his ethnological exhibits, with the aim of exposing his audience to various different subsistence modes and lifestyles.
A young Filipino girl is pictured sitting on a wooden bench in an enclosure in Coney Island, New York in another horrifying 1906 ‘exhibit’.
Both the 1878 and the 1889 Parisian World’s Fair presented a Black Village (village nègre). Visited by 28 million people, the 1889 World’s Fair displayed 400 indigenous people as the major attraction. The 1900 World’s Fair presented the famous diorama living in Madagascar, while the Colonial Exhibitions in Marseilles (1906 and 1922) and in Paris (1907 and 1931) also displayed humans in cages, often nude or semi-nude.
The 1931 exhibition in Paris was so successful that 34 million people attended it in six months, while a smaller counter-exhibition entitled The Truth on the Colonies , organized by the Communist Party, attracted very few visitors. Nomadic Senegalese Villages were also presented.
In 1904, Apaches and Igorots (from the Philippines) were displayed at the Saint Louis World Fair in association with the 1904 Summer Olympics. The US had just acquired, following the Spanish–American War, new territories such as Guam, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico, allowing them to “display” some of the native inhabitants.
An African girl is shown at the 1958 Expo in Brussels, Belgium that featured a ‘Congo Village’ with visitors watching her from behind wooden fences.
In 1906, Madison Grant—socialite, eugenicist, amateur anthropologist, and head of the New York Zoological Society—had Congolese pygmy Ota Benga put on display at the Bronx Zoo in New York City alongside apes and other animals.
At the behest of Grant, the zoo director William Hornaday placed Benga displayed in a cage with the chimpanzees, then with an orangutan named Dohong, and a parrot, and labeled him The Missing Link, suggesting that in evolutionary terms Africans like Benga were closer to apes than were Europeans. It triggered protests from the city’s clergymen, but the public reportedly flocked to see it.
Benga shot targets with a bow and arrow, wove twine, and wrestled with an orangutan. Although, according to The New York Times, “few expressed audible objection to the sight of a human being in a cage with monkeys as companions”, controversy erupted as black clergymen in the city took great offense.
“Our race, we think, is depressed enough, without exhibiting one of us with the apes,” said the Reverend James H. Gordon, superintendent of the Howard Colored Orphan Asylum in Brooklyn. “We think we are worthy of being considered human beings, with souls.”
On Monday, September 8, 1906, after just two days, the directors decided to close the exhibition, and Benga could be found walking the zoo grounds, often followed by a crowd “howling, jeering and yelling.”
German zoologist Professor Lutz Heck is pictured (left) with an elephant and a family he brought to the Berlin Zoo, in Germany in 1931.
At the human zoos of the early 20th century, the indigenous people on display faced a number of challenges. African tribal members were required to wear traditional clothing intended for the equatorial heat, even in freezing December temperatures, and Filipino villagers were made to perform a seasonal dog-eating ritual over and over to shock the audience. A lack of drinking water and appalling sanitary conditions led to rampant dysentery and other illnesses.
In most cases, there were no bars to keep those in human zoos from escaping, but the vast majority, especially those brought from foreign continents, had nowhere else to go. Set up in mock “ethnic villages,” indigenous people were asked to perform typical daily tasks, show off “primitive” skills like making stone tools, and pantomime rituals. In some shows, indigenous performers engaged in fake battles or tests of strength.
In the end, there was no outrage over the subjugation of humans that put an end to human zoos. In the years leading up to World War II and beyond, the public’s time and attention was drawn away from frivolity and toward geopolitical conflict and economic collapse.
By the middle of the 20th century, television replaced circuses and traveling “zoos” — human or otherwise — as the preferred mode of entertainment, and the display of indigenous people for entertainment fell out of fashion.
Professor Lutz Heck, director of the Berlin Zoo, arrives in Berlin, 1931. With him are members of the African Sara-Kaba tribe, who will soon be put on display. The scarves over the women’s mouths are covering their lip plates.
Original caption: “‘Cannibals carrying their master’, World’s Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Ill.” 1893.
In this image, indigenous people are shown participating in archery in 1904 in St Louis, Missouri, at an event named the ‘Savage Olympics Exhibition’.
Igorot men from the Philippines wearing loincloths and carrying hand drums, dance at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, November 13, 1904.
The World’s Fair in Brussels, Belgium in 1958 featured this mocked-up Senegalese village. Shows held across the Western world were designed to emphasize the cultural difference between Europeans and people who were deemed primitive.
Germany’s Kaiser Wilhelm II is pictured meeting Ethiopians standing behind a wooden fence in Hamburg, Germany in 1909.
Ota Benga, a Congolese man exhibited in the New York’s Bronx Zoo in 1906, was shockingly described as a ‘missing link’ of evolution. Over 40,000 people came to see him every day and was often subject to mocking from the crowd.
Chief Yellow Hair and his council standing in front of replicas of teepees at a human zoo at the 1904 World’s Fair in St Louis, Missouri.
This unidentified African man was cruelly displayed as an exhibit at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair in Missouri. The words ‘the missing link’ were scrawled on both of the photos.
The dreadful treatment of Ota Benga (second from left), a Congolese man ‘exhibited’ in New York’s Bronx Zoo in 1906, sparked outrage and he was eventually released. But six years later he tragically took his own life after being unable to assimilate into American life.
A photograph crudely named ‘The extremes meet – civilized and savage watching life savers’ exhibition’ shows a scene from the World’s Fair St. Louis, 1904, with tourists watching people deemed ‘primitive’.
This Eskimo child, pictured with a dog, was born at World’s Fair in Chicago and is pictured after being transferred to World’s Fair, St. Louis in 1904.
Not far from the Filipino exhibition at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair, the Apache hero Geronimo (pictured) would pose for tourists and sign autographs. Geronimo and several other Native American chiefs were also ‘on display’ at the event.
An Egyptian dancing girl at the World’s Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Illinois, USA, circa 1893.
Ota Benga, a Congolese man, in New York’s Bronx Zoo in 1906.
A head and shoulders photo shows a man in native headgear and dress at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois in about 1893.
Even children and babies were treated as displays in the human zoos. This youngster was among others at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois in about 1891.
Congolese man Ota Benga was treated as an exhibit before public outrage led to his release. But six years later he tragically took his own life after being unable to assimilate into American life.
African exhibition subjects pose in Oslo, Norway, 1914.
Unidentified members of a human exhibition in Oslo, Norway, 1914.
A Congolese Pygmy tribe dances at the St. Louis World Fair in 1904.
(Photo credit: Library of Congress / Bundesarchiv).
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