Unit 2

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Film showcasing the link between WCS's wildlife conservation efforts at its New York City zoos and its global field work. There is a segment on the Coral Reef Lab at the New York Aquarium and the medical fertilization of snow leopards. Staff featured include Fred Koontz, George Schaller, Alyssa Scott, Martha Hiatt, Kris Theis, Keith Walker, Kevin Walsh, Alan Alder, Lorraine Hershonik, William Karesh, Robert Cook, Paul Calle, and Bonnie Raphael.

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Film featuring George's Schaller's wildlife survey of the Shey Gompa area in Dolpo District, Nepal. Peter Matthiessen contributed to the film and appears on camera in several scenes.

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Produced by Staff Photographer Sam Dunton and Curator of Reptiles, James A. Oliver, the film shows the locomotion of various snakes and features a puff adder being photographed from below and by x-ray. "This is the first x-ray motion picture ever made to show the anatomical movements involved [of snakes]". It was intended to be part of a series on reptiles that would include the NYZS film Introducing the Reptiles.

Scope and Contents "Around the year in the zoo. Interesting animals and events in the New York Zoological Park. Photographed by Sam Dunton. Directed and Narrated by William Bridges Curator of Publications. Production Associate Herbert J. Knobloch Assistant Curator of Education"--Film credits. Year-in-review film for 1961. Footage includes Great Apes House, baby orangutans at Animal Hospital, keeper Steve Spencook wtih a crocodilian, iguanas and other reptiles, Bird House exhibits, Members Day activities; the...

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Film illustrating the history of the New York Aquarium on its 90th anniversary.

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The digitized version of this film has sound. A film letter documenting the expedition led by Olaus and Margaret (Mardy) Murie during the summer of 1956 along the Sheenjek River in northern Alaska. The expedition was sponsored by the New York Zoological Society and included George Schaller as a young assistant. The film is narrated by Olaus and Mardy Murie and was filmed by Robert Krear and produced by the Conservation Foundation.

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Film describing and promoting the courses at the Mweka College of African Wildlife Management in Tanganyika [Tanzania].

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Eclectic reel of footage including the opening of the Bronx Zoo bison range, a research center, and children.

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Footage from Wayne King's studies in Indonesia researching the Komodo monitor. Many landscape shots and close-up shots of the Komodo monitor in its natural habitat.

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Footage from George Schaller's studies of mountain gorillas in Central Africa. Majority of reel is shots of mountain gorillas, also includes shots of Kay Schaller at the Schallers' camp, landscape footage, Kay Schaller observing a volcano through binoculars; local peoples at homes and farms; additional sweeping landscape views. Original source footage for The Mountain Gorilla.