Unit 4

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Shows footage of Faifield Osborn at events at the Bronx Zoo and New York Aquarium, Osborn hosting the Shah and Empress of Iran, various exhibits including the Aquatic Birds House and the Red Light exhibits in the Small Mammal House, Osborn at New York Aquarium events, and the construction of Osborn Laboratories of Marine Science.

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Film showcasing the facilities and blueprints of the on-site hospital at the Bronx Zoo.

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"Illustrated by systematic records from the collections of the New York Zoological Society"--Film credits. "Chapter XVII Marsupials Continued and The Egg-Laying Mammals"--Film titles. Footage of animals interspersed with titles.

Scope and Contents Film commissioned to celebrate NYZS's seventy-fifth anniversary in 1970. The majority of the footage is from the 1960s and 1970s, but the reel opens up with early footage and still photography. There is some brief footage of the NYZS Building at the 1939-1940 World's Fair, the Institute for Research in Animal Behavior facility at the Bronx Zoo, the counstruction of the Osborn Laboratories of Marine Sciences, the opening of the World of Darkness and interior shots of that exhibit, dolphins...

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Year in review film. "A photographic report on the year's events great and small"--Opening film credits. Includes shots of Great Ape House exterior, opening of the new Aquatic Birds House and interior footage of the exhibit.

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Year in review film featuring footage of Przewalski's horses on the Bronx Zoo's Rare Animal Range, Bronx Zoo gorillas painting and keepers trying to get the paintings back from them, belugas at the New York Aquarium, tapirs at the Bronx Zoo, a puppet show at the Bronx Zoo, and gemsbok arriving at St. Catherines Island.

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"Jacques Cousteau's crew loading yellow saucer [Soucoupe] with equipment... Men on boat (C[arlton] Ray?) scooping out nets of fish on the water"--Original box label. Additional marine footage appears to be unrelated to Cousteau footage.

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Film by the medical officer on a seal-hunting boat in the ice fields off St. John's. Graphic footage of seals being killed; footage and intertitles illustrate animal exploitation at sea. "Newfoundland and the Investigation of the Harp and Hood Seal Fishery. 1949 Production by Harry R. Lillie"--Film credits.

Scope and Contents A snowy wintertime tour of the animals on exhibit at the Bronx Zoo. "Zoo Topics 1938. Photographed in the New York Zoological Park by Claude Leister. A snowy morning in January. A young hyrax is born in the Small Mammal House. We received a baby giant ant-eater. Their food is the standard ant-eater diet of milk, eggs, and chopped meat. A pair of springboks, the first in many years. We exhibit the rare nyala for the first time. The beavers build a new house. In the hospital 'Mike' the young...

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Child members of the American Junior Red Cross and Bronx Zoo staff members holding baby animals for a Red Cross event inside the Bronx Zoo's Administration building. Film also includes American Junior Red Cross members with baby animals and Helen Martini.