Zoo Quest in Paraguay (1959)

Concept and creative process

Opening titles for a series in which David Attenborough and a team from London Zoo travel in search of exotic animals. Their aim is to capture them and bring them back to the UK to exhibit in the zoo. David Attenborough searches for rare and interesting animals in the tropical swamps, forests and plains of central South America. Mute. The hand-drawn 'Zoo Quest' logo and title captions were filmed on a rostrum camera and superimposed over the film action in an optical.