Cobby: The Other Side of Cute

Streaming video - 2019

This curious doco investigates the story of Celebrity chimp COBBY, star of the short lived, little known 60s children's TV series Cobby's Hobbies, made in Kansas City. Australian Filmmaker Donna McRae watched the series as child and here she explores her own personal obsession with COBBY - the chimp himself and the TV show - pieceing together an often bizarrre story of an animal stolen from his natural habitat to work on TV before being retired into the San Francisco zoo at age 7. Donna travels to the US to meet her childhood obsession, still aliive!

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Genres
Documentary films
Published
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Label Distribution 2019.
2021.
Language
English
Other Authors
Donna McRae (film director), Michael Vale
Online Access
A Kanopy streaming video
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Item Description
Title from title frames.
Film
In Process Record.
Physical Description
1 online resource (streaming video file) (86 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Format
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Access
AVAILABLE FOR USE ONLY BY IOWA CITY AND RESIDENTS OF THE CONTRACTING GOVERNMENTS OF JOHNSON COUNTY, UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, HILLS, AND LONE TREE (IA).