Wildlife Conservation Society

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Unidentified researchers traveling to study oilbirds in caves near Simla station in Trinidad. Film begins with close-ups of researchers' faces. Includes footage of landscape; snakes; oilbird cave opening; oilbirds in cave, including chicks.

Scope and Contents "Pathe Review presents Plundering the Sea, A camera record of the Arcturus oceanographic expedition led by Dr. William Beebe. Released in cooperation with the NY Zoological Society. The Arcturus Expedition, fresh from the Sargasso Sea, arrives now at an equally strange field of investigation, the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific..."--Film credits. Includes footage used in reel 104766. Includes footage of William Beebe helmet diving (also in reel 104766), Isabel Cooper painting underwater,...

Scope and Contents Jocelyn Crane's field studies on the behaviour and ecology of Austruca lactea annulipes [Ring-legged fiddler crabs], a species of fiddler crabs that are found along the eastern coastline of Africa and the Indo-Pacific region. "AFR-26 Pemba food and chake hill annulipes. -J. crane" --Film leader "AFR Pemba. Chake chake. annul. Sp 1. Suva. lactea. SP 14. Manila lactea.(also marionis and Ilyoplax. SP Davao. (Madaum). Lactea. Sea 7. Kallong. lactea (rest of sequence in AM 1956 reel). all [ ]...

Scope and Contents Two short films from the 1925 DTR expedition to the Galapagos. The first film is an edited film with title cards. "The Arcturus, expeditionary ship of the New York Zoological Society, sails investigates the life of the sea"--Title card. Shows Arcturus leaving port, DTR staff working on board, doing depth soundings, deep-sea dredging and inspecting and sorting specimens. The second film: "Galapagos lecture reel number II. Indefatigable [island volcano] model. Panorama South Seymour....

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Exterior of Rancho Grande field station, various animals, William Beebe and Henry Fleming climbing a tree to collect specimens. Shots of bottles of various acids. Sequence of marionette appearing to do something with bottle of acid. "Assorted flowers, birds, small animals, fulgurites (includes Mung, red howler monkey and arum sequences)"--Note in original can.

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A compilation reel with macro photography footage subjects including insects, amphibians, and reptiles on various flora; also footage highlighting the pupa and chrysalis stages of the development of a butterflies.

Scope and Contents A compilation reel including shots of animal field studies, landscapes, and DTR staff members' work stations inside the new biological field station Rancho Grande. Footage includes child playing with an insect, exterior shots of the Rancho Grande field station, William Beebe and other DTR staff catching a snake on the grounds of Rancho Grande, an ocelot playing with a puppet, Jocelyn Crane with a monkey, George Swanson painting a snake as he holds it in his hands. Contains some duplicate...

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William Beebe walking with bush dog; footage of snakes, insects, squid, and fish; lizard eating insects, antlion, fish, and crabs in front of a sunset.

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Close up of the eyes of amphibians, and lizards eating butterflies. Motion studies of reptiles in trees.

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"Frogs, coral snake, caterpillar (sphinx). Moths at light, [...], ends with Macaw"--Note in original can. Henry Fleming's field experiments in attracting moths and butterflies. Contains some duplicate material from reel 104247 and 103945.