Blueprint: The New Zoo (May 1986)

original format: VHS, color with sound

A documentary video about the "new zoo" vision for Woodland Park Zoo featuring natural animal environments and behaviors and immersive exhibits. Features interviews with zoo professionals from WPZ and other zoos. Discusses a "modern zoo" focus on education, recreation, conservation, and research.

Interviewees:
David Towne - Director, WPZ
Joan Embery - San Diego Zoo
Dr George Rabb - Director of Chicago Zoological Society
Dr. William Karesh - New York Zoological Society
John Bierlein - Curator of Exhibits, WPZ
Robert W. Davidson - Executive Director, Woodland Park Zoo Society
Debbera Stecher - Senior Keeper, Birds, WPZ
Dana Payne - Keeper, Tropical House, WPZ
Virgil Fassio - Publisher, Seattle P-I

Produced with a grant from SAFECO Insurance Companies
Produced by SAFECO Media Services and David Samuelson, Vision Productions
Narrator Jim Cissell
Little girl playing in immersive landscape is Mira Konzen

Item 12884, Record Series 8601-08: Woodland Park Zoo Moving Images, Seattle Municipal Archives

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