Anable, Gloria Hollister

Scope and Contents This reel contains three different Department of Tropical Research expeditions: 1) The Bathysphere, Bermuda [also #3]: "Animation, Bathysphere descent. Pulling in twisted hose and uncoiling. Hurricane on Nonsuch Island. Loading Bathysphere from the deck of Taifun, onto the [barge] Ready"--Beebe film catalog circa 1940, p41. "With Beebe and Barton on top. First testing of the Bathysphere - bailing out Bathysphere from water. Second testing of Bathysphere - bailing out Bathysphere from...

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...

Scope and Contents “Bathysphere Lecture, New. I. Nets out from stern, wire unwinding. Engine. [Octopus shooting ink. Animation of shrimp creating defense cloud.] Animation of chiasmodon. Animation metamorphosis of Gulper eel. Bringing in net. Bringing in pressure gauge and opening. Gladisfen coming in [the tugboat that towed the Ready, the ship that the first dives the Bathysphere were conducted from]. Catch carried to laboratory. Emptying and examining catch. Live caulolipus. Live melamphaes. Live white...

Scope and Contents “Bathysphere Lecture, New. I. Nets out from stern, wire unwinding. Engine. Animation of chiasmodon. [Live squids shooting black ink]. Squid smoke - shrimp luminescence. shooting black ink. [Live octopus]. Animation metamorphosis of Gulper eel. Stylophthalmus. Bringing in net. Bringing in pressure gauge and opening. Gladisfen [ship] coming in. Catch carried to laboratory. Emptying and examining catch. Live caulolipus. Live melamphaes. Live white ceratiad. Live black pediculate. Live...

Scope and Contents Rare footage of the Department of Tropical Research in Bermuda and Barbados. Reel opens with Gloria Hollister inside of a lab preparing fish specimens and shows her out on location with her dog Trumps. Standing in open water, Hollister holds Trumps up to water glass in order to view content of water below the surface. Flying fish fishing at Bathsheba in Barbados viewed from boats wherein crews are shown using hook-and-line and nets to catch fish. Deep hulled sailboats seen on water from...

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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 aerial shots of a waterfall, or waterfalls, of the Potaro River at Kaieteur plateau, British Guiana. According to Gloria Hollister's description of the DTR's twenty-third expedition in 1936, motion picture film and still photography were taken from a Wasp-Ireland amphibious plane. Additional waterfalls were filmed at King Edward VIII Falls.

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An ocelot plays with a person wearing a zookeeper's uniform hat and holding a stick, outdoors on a lawn. A tayra in an interior, concrete area is fed a banana and gripped at the nape by a person wearing a keeper's uniform pants. An ocelot and a tayra were among the specimens brought to the Bronx Zoo from the Department of Tropical Research's twenty-third expedition in 1936.