Unit 4

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Significance of original film title (Brown, 1940-1941) not understood by WCS Archives. Short reel that features bison, Baird Court, crowds at the Bronx Zoo and a close up of a man believed to be NYZS President Fairfield Osborn.

Scope and Contents Reel shot list "1959 - 1969: Treetop Acrobats. New Ideas (Conservation). Aerial Shot - This is the Bronx Zoo 1959. Rielly & Orang - Looking for the Answers. South American Lungfish - World of Water. Green Turtle and Loggerhead laying eggs - Introducing the Reptiles. Timber Wolf - Zoo 1966. Aquatic Bird House Interiors - Always Something New at the Bronx Zoo 1964. Tufted Puffins; Kittlitz's Sand Plover (seashore). Black-necked stilts (marsh); Sun-bittern (swamp); Hammerheads - Zoo Short...

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Interior of Small Mammal House, small animals perched on branches, Wilson's bird of paradise and red bird of paradise.

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Shot list: "Children's day. Member's day. Baby elephants arriving. Baby gorillas. Kittens at nursery and baby elephants"--Original box label.

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Footage of baby gorilla Patty Cake in diapers and with an animal keeper in a baby pool. Reel shot list: "Children's Zoo opening. Baby gorillas at farm nursery, with B[rad] House, S. King's mother and A. Kemper. Patty Cake, gorilla, in Animal Hospital nursery. Skyride. Press preview"--Original box label.

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Short clips of bison on exhibit and close-ups of gorillas in Great Apes House.

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"Torrent ducks, wattled crane, graveyard, garden party, Bronx Day, octopus egg, bats with young"--Original can label.

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The WCS Archives holds no additional information about this film at this time.

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Shot list: "Bronx Zoo aerial shots. Geology Walk. Aquarium- interior shots. Elephant house. Bovidae- antelope oribi. Alaskan village"--Original box label.

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Reel of outtakes: "Gar. coelenterata (anemones jellyfish). Order ginglymodi -family lepisosteridae - alligator gar. Climbing perch. Pleuronectoidea (flounder). Golden wagtail platy. Polyps and jellyfish"--Original box label.