Cobby: The Other Side of Cute
Cuteness has a use-by date.
Cobby's Hobbies was a 1960's children's TV program featuring a chimpanzee getting hmself into all sorts of mischief. For filmmaker Donna McRae, the show was a crucial part of getting through a lonely childhood. McRae seeks people that made the show, Cobby's zoo friends, zoo keepers and the animal rights activists that help her piece together the story of an animal stolen from his natural habitat to work on TV before, being retired into the San Francisco Zoo at age 7. Most primates chimps in entertainment suffered horrifically, becoming research animals or caged in roadside zoos. This documentary examines how we perceive animals in entertainment and how we address their plight now.
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- English
- animal rights
- anti-vivisection
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Australia
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- PremiereNRSF DocFest 20186 Jun 2018
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Cobby: The Other Side of Cute was released on 6 June 2018.
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