Where do you find this stuff!

Classic old zoo experience. I remember going to chimps’ tea parties in England when i was a small boy. Most English zoos had them. The tide began turning on such things, I think, in the 70s.

There was a series of famous tv ads over here for PG Tips Tea, which had voice dubbed chimpanzees acting out humourous human scenarios. I remember hating such use of those magnificent beasts. Especially because in the early 70s I was reading Gerald Durrell animal expedition books and Jane Goodall’s fantastic In the Shadow of Man, about her time living and studying the primates of the Gombe National Park.

The plight of the great apes now is thoroughly depressing. But this is brilliant rare footage nonetheless.