Crane, Jocelyn

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 “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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Edited film likely presented at NYZS Annual Meeting. DTR staff members building a new insectary on the grounds of Simla. Time lapse studies of the pupa, chrysalis, and cocoon stages of butterfly development. Footage of researcher, possibly Rosemary Kenedy, working with butterflies. "Butterfly Studies at the Tropical Research Center. Photographed by Russ Kline, Jocelyn Crane, Nautica Waterbury, Rosemary Kenedy"--Film Credits

Scope and Contents The Department of Tropical Research's first sound film, a summary of their wildlife field work in Venezuela, intended for a Venezuelan juvenile audience and produced by the Creole Petroleum Corporation, owned by ESSO Standard Oil. There is no known English language version of this film. Includes introduction in Spanish by William Beebe. "La siguiente película se presenta por cortesía del Dr. Beebe, director del Departamento de Investigaciones Tropicales de la Sociedad Zoológica de Nueva...

Scope and Contents An edited reel capturing the arduous task of local Trinidadians and DTR staff moving supplies and setting up equipment for the 57th expedition of the Department of Tropical Research to Simla, Trinidad. Exterior shots of station and surrounding area. Shots of William Beebe using binoculars. Shots of a man, possibly David Snow, operating a motion picture camera. Dr. Snow has "continued the observation of manakin displays begun during 1956 and embarked on cine-photography which will help in...

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DTR staff members at work at their headquarters and out in the field. William Beebe looking through binoculars, a young boy with a donkey, William Beebe collecting subterranean mammals, George Alan Swanson painting a lizard as he holds it in his hands, an ant colony, various insects.