Happy Lion

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A short, animated children's film with the title Happy Lion. It consists of a single reel of color 16mm polyester film with optical sound. The film is about a lion who has a house in the town zoo. A young boy, François, walks by the zoo and greets the happy lion, followed by several other people who also walk by and greet him. One morning, the lion realizes that his keeper left the door open and leaves his house. He wanders off into the town and greets some of the people who usually greet him at the zoo, but to his surprise, the people are afraid of him. Only the young boy François is not terrified of the happy lion and walks him back to the zoo.

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