Independent Zoo Enthusiast Society

The IZES website is temporarily down owing to some confusion over a paypal payment! Should be back up soon.
Meanwhile, this is a good opportunity to remind members of the IZES meeting at Chester Zoo this Saturday (10 March).
The meeting will be held in the Mottershead Room of the Cedar Building (admin. centre), starting at 10:30am. In addition to the usual swap/meet, a presentation will be given by Dr. Mark Pilgrim (Director General of Chester Zoo).
 
A date for your diary -
Friday 2nd & Saturday 3rd October
This year sees 20 years since the formation of I.Z.E.S. To celebrate the anniversary we have organised a special weekend on the above dates at the Rare Species Conservation Centre and The Wildwood Trust (Kent).
Friday 2nd sees an evening icebreaker at the RSCC with food and a chance to meet owner Todd Dalton. Saturday morning sees a swap/meet of zoo ephemera, plus a look at this fascinating collection. In the afternoon we move to Wildwood to see their collection of European animals with an evening of food and film (including episodes of the classic series from 1969 -"Great Zoos of The World"). Because of catering, etc. an idea of numbers would be useful, so an indication of possible attendance (to our address or raresoulvinyl@btconnect.com) is much appreciated. A timetable and costs will be sent to those who express an interest (no obligation!).
 
I have not heard of this before, is there copies available somewhere?

(including episodes of the classic series from 1969 -"Great Zoos of The World")
 
zooman said:
I have not heard of this before..."Great Zoos of The World")
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Great Zoos of the World was a TV series produced by the BBC, and presented by the late Anthony Smith. The zoos featured were London, West Berlin, San Diego, Basel, Antwerp, Frankfurt and the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum.
For some time, it was thought that only the London Zoo episode survived, but the full set has been recovered.
I don't know if any are available commercially.
 
I'd love to see that at some point :) on the topic of zoo history, I picked up a copy of Zoo Without Bars by June Johns for 99p today!
 
MikeG said:
A date for your diary -
Friday 2nd & Saturday 3rd October
This year sees 20 years since the formation of I.Z.E.S. To celebrate the anniversary we have organised a special weekend on the above dates at the Rare Species Conservation Centre and The Wildwood Trust (Kent).
Friday 2nd sees an evening icebreaker at the RSCC with food and a chance to meet owner Todd Dalton. Saturday morning sees a swap/meet of zoo ephemera, plus a look at this fascinating collection. In the afternoon we move to Wildwood to see their collection of European animals with an evening of food and film (including episodes of the classic series from 1969 -"Great Zoos of The World"). Because of catering, etc. an idea of numbers would be useful, so an indication of possible attendance (to our address or raresoulvinyl@btconnect.com) is much appreciated. A timetable and costs will be sent to those who express an interest (no obligation!).
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The programm sounds great, although I fear I do not have the opportunity to come, Switzerland would be doable, but my places for field research probably won't.....
 
MikeG said:
Great Zoos of the World was a TV series produced by the BBC, and presented by the late Anthony Smith. The zoos featured were London, West Berlin, San Diego, Basel, Antwerp, Frankfurt and the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum.
For some time, it was thought that only the London Zoo episode survived, but the full set has been recovered.
I don't know if any are available commercially.
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Thanks Mike :)
 
ajmcwhipsnade said:
What is the cost of membership these days?
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Currently £29 for 8 issues of the magazine [which is basically 2 years, given we're now working on a quarterly schedule]

* £39 for non-UK subscribers, due to high cost of overseas post *
 
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MikeG said:
Great Zoos of the World was a TV series produced by the BBC, and presented by the late Anthony Smith. The zoos featured were London, West Berlin, San Diego, Basel, Antwerp, Frankfurt and the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum.
For some time, it was thought that only the London Zoo episode survived, but the full set has been recovered.
I don't know if any are available commercially.

It certainly is NOT available commercially in any shape or form..in fact a famous UK wildlife T.V. presenter had a look for me and came back with the conclusion that the series had been erased.Anthony Smith didn't have them either(he died last year).BUT,after a fifteen year search I located the full series.In fact ,they are one of the first BBC colour programmes..and the first in the various series of "Great" anything..couldn't see zoos being first choice today in such a series(sadly).They date from 1969 and were last shown on a daytime repeat in 1973(pre-video recorders of course).The first zoo series on UK television was "At Home In The Zoo" with Gerald Iles (Belle Vue),circa 1954/55 and Ive an episode of that one too...they literally bring a Gerenuk and a Greater Bird-of-Paradise into his house in the zoo!
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Tim Brown said:
.They date from 1969 and were last shown on a daytime repeat in 1973(pre-video recorders of course).
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Somewhere much more recently I have seen a clip from the Basel episode, where he is talking in front of the (then new) Gorilla enclosure. I can't remember when or in what programme it featured it but someone must have had access to at least this one episode, or a part of it.
 
I have booked these dates off of work now so fingers crossed all goes ahead and I can come along!

I have sent an email to the listed address btw, look forward to the details :)
 
stubeanz said:
I have sent an email to the listed address btw, look forward to the details :)
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Thanks to all those who've expressed an interest. We are finalizing details of the event & should soon have a costing.
Anyone else planning to attend (or considering), please let us know ASAP.
 
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