Unit 3

Film showing birds in the city, possibly shown in the World of Birds exhibit.

Miscellaneous footage showing summer crowds and outdoor exhibits at the New York Aquarium. "Highlights and happenings at the Aquarium. In a hot dry summer our "water world" put on a continuous and lively afternoon"--Film credits.

Film opens with the Bronx Zoo's Question House and intersplices book pages with zebra, bird, and deer footage to educate viewers on animal species. "The New York Zoological Society is finding dramatic ways to old ends-- Conservation, Recreation, Instruction and Research"--Film credits.

A-roll of Wildlife Survival Center at St Catherines Island, operated by NYZS. "Produced by Wildlife Conservation Center"--Film credits.

B-roll of Wildlife Survival Center at St Catherines Island, operated by NYZS. "Produced by Wildlife Conservation Center"--Film credits.

Picturesque shots of deer, bison, birds, multiple nests in the wild with eggs, people with fawns, and the landscape of the Jackson Hole Wildlife Park. Original box label notes that this is a different film from 1949 film with same title.

Year in review film. Footage of crowds at the zoo and baby bat being bottle fed, but mostly close-up footage of birds. "Photographed by Sam Dunton. Adapted and narrated by William Bridges, Curator of Publications, New York Zoological Society"--Film credits.

Two films spliced together for home projection: "Burton Holmes's Snap Shot of Travel: Kangaroos in Australia, and Kodak Cinegraph Animal Life of the Sea."--Film credits

Film presenting the opening of the World of Birds building. The film shows staff members giving tours of the new exhibit.

Footage of goats and sheep in the wild and at the Bronx Zoo. "Bovidae (mouflon or Sardinian wild sheep, aoudad wild sheep at zoo; domestic sheep legs walking; domestic goats, bighorn females on top of hill). Waterholes. Thompson's gazelle. Cervidae Pere David Sparring"--Original can label.