Wildlife Conservation Society

Scope and Contents Edited film presented at 1960 NYZS Annual Meeting. David Snow and William Beebe feeding, trapping, color banding, and collecting courting, plumage, and molt data on manakins. Snow with a parabolic microphone used for audio field recording. Ends with William Beebe's face emerging from behind binoculars. "Capturing Rare Birds. in Trinidad. Copyright New York Zoological Society MCMLX. Photographed at the Department of Tropical Research Station at "Simla" by Russ Kinne"--Film credits. "[Dr....

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Edited film likely presented at NYZS Annual Meeting. DTR staff members building a new insectary on the grounds of Simla. Time lapse studies of the pupa, chrysalis, and cocoon stages of butterfly development. Footage of researcher, possibly Rosemary Kenedy, working with butterflies. "Butterfly Studies at the Tropical Research Center. Photographed by Russ Kline, Jocelyn Crane, Nautica Waterbury, Rosemary Kenedy"--Film Credits

Scope and Contents The Department of Tropical Research's first sound film, a summary of their wildlife field work in Venezuela, intended for a Venezuelan juvenile audience and produced by the Creole Petroleum Corporation, owned by ESSO Standard Oil. There is no known English language version of this film. Includes introduction in Spanish by William Beebe. "La siguiente película se presenta por cortesía del Dr. Beebe, director del Departamento de Investigaciones Tropicales de la Sociedad Zoológica de Nueva...

Scope and Contents Home movie reels from Elswyth Thane of a Bermuda Oceanographic Expedition that may have been the twelfth for the Department of Tropical Research. Footage of Gloria Hollister's dog Trumps and expedition members on board the S. S. Fort Victoria. William Beebe and John Tee-Van are shown aboard a motorboat, staff embark on Nonsuch Island in Bermuda, Beebe and Tee-Van interact with a monkey, play catch with a ball, and hold up a puppy. Beebe and Tee-Van bathe the monkey. Staff observe a tortoise...

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Footage from the Department of Tropical Research work in Bermuda. Some shots are similar to Pathe's Beebe footage, but there are additional shots. Based on the black edges, this reel looks to be 16mm footage shot with a home movie camera, not a reduction print from 35mm nitrate negative. Presumed to be shot by Elswyth Thane. Further description pending digitization; expected October 2024.

Scope and Contents An edited reel capturing the arduous task of local Trinidadians and DTR staff moving supplies and setting up equipment for the 57th expedition of the Department of Tropical Research to Simla, Trinidad. Exterior shots of station and surrounding area. Shots of William Beebe using binoculars. Shots of a man, possibly David Snow, operating a motion picture camera. Dr. Snow has "continued the observation of manakin displays begun during 1956 and embarked on cine-photography which will help in...

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DTR staff members at work at their headquarters and out in the field. William Beebe looking through binoculars, a young boy with a donkey, William Beebe collecting subterranean mammals, George Alan Swanson painting a lizard as he holds it in his hands, an ant colony, various insects.

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Edited film likely presented at an NYZS Annual Meeting. William Beebe greeting a visitor to Simla. Jocelyn Crane working in an insectary at Simla. Various examples of the trials conducted with butterflies to study color preferences and behavior. Macro photographic field studies of caterpillars and the egg, larva, pupa life cycle of the butterfly. "A Newsletter in pictures from the Trinidad Field station of the Department of Tropical Research. Photography by Rosemary Kenedy"--Film credits.

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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.

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Jocelyn Crane's field studies on the behaviour and ecology of Uca marionis crabs in an unidentified location. "Sina Marionis"--Original can label. "Annual meeting. Uca (pre....) bow (triangle symbol"--Note found inside the can. The name Uca marionis is no longer recognized; these are likely Gelasimus excisus.