BFI

As the title card puts it, "As felled tree at Zoo is too much for human hands, 'Indarini' is brought in to 'tidy up'". Unlike many of Topical Budget's zoo items, this has been edited to create at least a semblance of a narrative, in which the elephant Indarini comes to the rescue of assorted hapless humans, who are first shown trying to lift a fallen tree trunk with little success.

Indarini is far more effective, at first creating a visual pun by using a trunk to pick up a trunk, and then rolling a larger trunk in the right direction. The man riding Indarini seems to be thoroughly enjoying himself, underscored by the gleeful closing title 'Ride 'em Cowboy!'

Michael Brooke

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