Tigers, London Zoological Gardens [SEP] director
Tigers, London Zoological Gardens
Tigers, London Zoological Gardens () is a 1896 French short black-and-white silent actuality film, produced by Auguste and Louis Lumière and directed by Alexandre Promio, featuring two tigers reaching through the bars of its enclosure at London Zoological Gardens to get at the meat offered on a stick by their keeper. The film was part of a series, including "Lion" and "Pelicans", which were one of the earliest examples of animal life on film.
Zoological Gardens was a zoo located in the Royal Surrey Gardens in Kennington, London, England. The gardens were acquired in 1831 by impresario Edward Cross to be the location of his new Surrey Zoological Gardens, using animals from his menagerie at Exeter Exchange, in competition with the new London Zoo in Regent's Park. A large circular domed glass conservatory was built in the gardens, in circumference, with more than of glass, to contain separate cages for lions, tigers, a rhinoceros, and giraffes.
After Cross's