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Antarctica - Weddell seals, reel 3, 1966

 Item — Container: Unit 2, Shelf: C

Scope and Contents

Footage from Carleton Ray taken during his Antarctica studies. Reel 3 shows researchers with seals, including weighing seal pups; seals with pups; birds eating what appears to be meat; an area blocked off for "Seals Mating, Adults Only"; researchers exiting a trailer with an NYZS flag on it; researchers using audio recording devices indoors, bird eating eyeballs of dead seal pup; landscape shots of researcher area.

Dates

  • 1966

Creator

Extent

1 film : Color; Silent; Positive print; Acetate base; 24 frames per second; Master positive ; 16mm

25 minutes

900 feet (Media Diameter: 13 inches)

Language of Materials

English

General

Digitized in 2023 under the WCS Archives' Shelby White and Leon Levy Film Initiative.

Repository Details

Part of the Wildlife Conservation Society Archives Repository

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