Box Unit 7

Scope and Contents This reel contains three groupings of footage related to two Department of Tropical Research expeditions: 1) William Beebe testing the Bathysphere in Bermuda: "Window leaking. Opening door. Explosion of Bathysphere. Bailing out of water. Removing imperfect window"--Beebe film catalog circa 1940, p41. "Loading Bathysphere with chemicals"--Beebe film catalog circa 1940, p13. "Gloria Hollister outside and William Beebe inside phoning. John Tee Van signaling on deck. Bathysphere going up. Going...

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Reel shows footage of William Beebe diving in copper helmet and appears to be from two expeditions. From 0:00-2:57, the footage is from the Arcturus expedition to the Galapagos; the remaining footage, from 2:58-6:14 is believed to have been shot during the DTR's Haiti expedition and includes more underwater footage.

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Includes silent dupe negative of footage from British Guiana used in the Paramount newsreel Miss Christopher Columbus with no titles or credits. Shots include aerial footage over Kaieteur Falls. Also includes footage of Hollister in the water in Bermuda with her dog Trumps, and Hollister descending and then ascending off rowboat into water in diving helmet.

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Footage shot during the twenty-third expedition of the Department of Tropical Research, which was led by Gloria Hollister. Hoatzin chicks in a nest and hopping on tree branches. A close up of a pair of hands, extending the unique wing claws at the end of a fledgling hoatzin's wings. Adult hoatzins perching in trees. Landscape footage shot from a boat on the river. Local men rowing boats on the river.

Scope and Contents Compilation of footage twenty-third expedition of the Department of Tropical Research, led by Gloria Hollister. “Kaieteur Falls, British Guiana”— Original can label. Falls from a nearby cliff. Various shots of boats and scenery on a river. Various aerial shots of falls, rivers, creeks and the countryside taken from a plane. Gloria Hollister in an airplane. DTR staff walking on a trail to boats docked on a river. Medium range shots of local people on rowboats and local people carrying packs...

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Compilation of footage twenty-third expedition of the Department of Tropical Research, led by Gloria Hollister. Aerial shots of the Kaieteur Falls and various river landscapes shot from a boat.

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Two wide-angle shots of waterfalls. Further description pending digitization; expected October 2024.

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“Miss Christopher Columbus. From South America, a courageous woman explorer – Gloria Hollister– brings amazing pictures of a waterfall mightier than the Niagara. Paramount Pictorial. MCMXXXVI”--Film credits. Reel 104731 in this collection, which has been digitized, includes silent footage from this film.

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William Beebe working with butterflies. Macro photographic field studies of insects caterpillars and the egg, larva, pupa life cycle of the butterfly. Some of this reel duplicates footage from reel 104230, Dr Beebe's Moths and Butterflies.

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Home movie footage shot at a lakeside house with a pool. Reel originally housed with other home movie reels of Bermuda shot or collected by Elswyth Thane.