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DR. DOLITTLE: LION’S DEN: German Version

Shadow Play: The Animated Films of Lotte Reiniger • 11m

Directed by Lotte Reiniger • 1923 • Germany

The animals of Africa pitch in to help Dr. Dolittle tend to a troop of ailing gorillas, orangutans, and baboons.

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