Unit 3

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Film highlighting Bronx Zoo animals and exhibits, including hummingbirds, tapirs, gorillas, and penguins. Includes footage from the opening of the Great Apes House and view of the exhibt.

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William Bridges's Belgian Congo expedition to transport three elephants to the Bronx Zoo. "A photographic report of three young elephants presented as gifts to the NYZS from the government of the Republic of the Belgian Congo"--Film credits.

Scope and Contents "Let's go to the Zoo. Special staff lecture film. Composite footage from 'Around the year in the Zoo'--1953, 1954 and 1955. Red-eared monkey; four young chimps; baby wanderoo monkey (Kenneth); Wanderoo, older with mirror; Helen Martini nursing baby tiger; Helen Martini nursing jaguar triplets; H.M. and tiger and jaguar cubs playing in Nursery; Tawny frogmouths; Otto the potto; four baby cottontails, Flip the sealion in Hospital; Interior of Reptile H. including Indian Rock puthon and eggs;...

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Shows the growth and care of three tigers, born in the Bronx Zoo and raised from infancy by Helen Martini, including in her Bronx apartment.

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"The New York Aquarium is a meeting place for grace and beauty and grotesque form"--Opening titles. Film shows various New York Aquarium exhibits, including the new walrus pool, and research activities at the proposed Osborn Laboratories of Marine Sciences.

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Year in review film introducing the exhibits and research facilities at the newly relocated New York Aquarium at Coney Island.

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Film showcasing antelopes at the Bronx Zoo and in their wild habitat in the plains of Africa. Opens at Bronx Zoo's Heads and Horns Museum, followed by footage from the Bronx Zoo's African Plains. Majority of film shows antelopes in central Africa.

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Film showcasing a variety of baby animals being raised at the Bronx Zoo. Includes footage of Bronx Zoo's Gibbon Island and Animal Nursery.

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Film highlighting animals facing extinction at the Bronx Zoo and the New York Aquarium (including Pere David's deer, dolphins, and polar bears).

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Compilation reel of outtakes of ants and various insects.