TV Movie: Snow

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'Tis the season to watch dreadful TV movies.

I'm watching one called 'Snow' about one of Santa's reindeers that accidentally ends up in the fictional San Ernesto Zoo just before Christmas.

It was apparently filmed at the Bowmanville Zoo in Ontario and there are lots of shots of the zoo. I don't know how much they changed it for the film.

I almost forgot to add this about the zoo:

Bowmanville Zoo is one of the largest suppliers of trained animals for the feature film and television industry. As an accredited member of CAZA (The Canadian Association of Zoos and Aquariums), the Bowmanville Zoo brings the highest standards of animal welfare and conservation to its animal programming.

Maintaining the largest stable of trained movie and television animals in Canada, the Bowmanville Zoo bring cutting edge operant conditioning techniques and behavioural modification to the animals under it's stewardship. While concentrating upon the large feline predators and elephants, the zoo has enjoyed great success with a wide array of mammalian, reptilian and avian species.

While the development of appropriate animals for the feature film and television markets remains one of the major activities of the zoo, it is a smaller part of the principal ongoing efforts to educate and instil stewardship ethics of our planet in visitors to the Zoo.