Wildlife Conservation Society

Scope and Contents Edited film likey presented at NYZS Annual Meeting about the Department of Tropical Research's 54th expedition in Malaya, and narrated by Jocelyn Crane. Begins with preface showing William Beebe and Michael Tweedie, director of the Raffles Museum, followed by Beebe visiting the Johor Zoo. The Curious Crabs of Singapore documents Jocelyn Crane's studies on 32 species of Ocypodid crabs. Footage of Singapore waterfront, followed by footage and descriptions of various crabs, with focus on...

Scope and Contents A compilation reel with close-up footage of various crab species, apparently in tanks: "Alaskan king, horseshoe, fiddler, arrow, and unidentified crabs (not necessarily in this order)"--Original can label. Some of the footage is similar to Jocelyn Crane's field studies on the social behavior of crabs. There are additional shots of crab exhibits at the New York Aquarium. The reel ends two unidentified researchers drawing a sample from a horseshoe crab, possibly at the Osborn Laboratories of...

Scope and Contents Edited film likely presented at NYZS Annual Meeting. A combination travelogue and overview of Jocelyn Crane's worldwide field studies of the fiddler crab. Footage of local landscapes and indigenous people in Africa and the Indo-Pacific region. "A brief record of Jocelyn Crane's journey to Zanzibar and points south and west to study the biology of Uca."--Film credits. "[The] fifty-eighth expedition [of the Department of Tropical Research], this was a field trip to Africa, the fourth scheduled...

Scope and Contents This reel contains three different Department of Tropical Research expeditions: 1) The Bathysphere, Bermuda [also #3]: "Animation, Bathysphere descent. Pulling in twisted hose and uncoiling. Hurricane on Nonsuch Island. Loading Bathysphere from the deck of Taifun, onto the [barge] Ready"--Beebe film catalog circa 1940, p41. "With Beebe and Barton on top. First testing of the Bathysphere - bailing out Bathysphere from water. Second testing of Bathysphere - bailing out Bathysphere from...

Scope and Contents This reel contains three groupings of footage related to two Department of Tropical Research expeditions: 1) William Beebe testing the Bathysphere in Bermuda: "Window leaking. Opening door. Explosion of Bathysphere. Bailing out of water. Removing imperfect window"--Beebe film catalog circa 1940, p41. "Loading Bathysphere with chemicals"--Beebe film catalog circa 1940, p13. "Gloria Hollister outside and William Beebe inside phoning. John Tee Van signaling on deck. Bathysphere going up. Going...

Scope and Contents “Bathysphere Lecture, New. I. Nets out from stern, wire unwinding. Engine. [Octopus shooting ink. Animation of shrimp creating defense cloud.] Animation of chiasmodon. Animation metamorphosis of Gulper eel. Bringing in net. Bringing in pressure gauge and opening. Gladisfen coming in [the tugboat that towed the Ready, the ship that the first dives the Bathysphere were conducted from]. Catch carried to laboratory. Emptying and examining catch. Live caulolipus. Live melamphaes. Live white...

Scope and Contents “Bathysphere Lecture, New. I. Nets out from stern, wire unwinding. Engine. Animation of chiasmodon. [Live squids shooting black ink]. Squid smoke - shrimp luminescence. shooting black ink. [Live octopus]. Animation metamorphosis of Gulper eel. Stylophthalmus. Bringing in net. Bringing in pressure gauge and opening. Gladisfen [ship] coming in. Catch carried to laboratory. Emptying and examining catch. Live caulolipus. Live melamphaes. Live white ceratiad. Live black pediculate. Live...

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Edited film likely presented at NYZS Annual Meeting. Film showing the typical workday of the William Beebe, Jocelyn Crane, Henry Fleming and Ellen Ordway on the grounds and interior research lab of the Department of Tropical Research in Simla, Trinidad. "Biologist in the tropics: An expedition to "Simla" (The NY Zoological Society Research Station in Trinidad) 1954. Photographed by Sam Dunton additional scenes by Jocelyn Crane"--Film credits.

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Footage of birds and cattle, followed by footage of birds and reptiles, taken from a rowboat on a river, with shots of William Beebe in the rowboat.

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William Beebe working with butterflies. Macro photographic field studies of insects caterpillars and the egg, larva, pupa life cycle of the butterfly. Some of this reel duplicates footage from reel 104230, Dr Beebe's Moths and Butterflies.