Animals Male And Female (1962)

Chessington Zoo, Chessington, Surrey. M/S of a lion lying on the rock, roaring. Cut to a lioness walking. She stops to pose for the camera. Shot - reverse shot combination of lion and lioness - comparison shots. Lioness is “dreary-looking and positively dowdy in comparison to the majesty, the magnificence of the male“ - voiceover tells the audience. Cut to a succession of very picturesque long shots of a herd of deer running across a field. They look magnificent. Camera pans from males to females and back. “Stags have all the glamour“ - claims narrator - the male is the monarch with all the adornments...“ Cut to a panning shot of two ducks in a pond - one is very colourful and the other is plain (grey-brown). A few more ducks join them. There is a noticeable difference between the colourful ducks and the plain ones. The colourful ducks are males - informs the voiceover. This serves as one more example of the magnificence of the male. The film claims (and attempts to demonstrate) that only in the world of