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[1961] Around the Year in the Zoo [with additional Bronx Zoo footage], 1961

 Item — Container: Unit 2, Shelf: B

Scope and Contents

"Around the year in the zoo. Interesting animals and events in the New York Zoological Park. Photographed by Sam Dunton. Directed and Narrated by William Bridges Curator of Publications. Production Associate Herbert J. Knobloch Assistant Curator of Education"--Film credits. Year-in-review film for 1961. Footage includes Great Apes House, baby orangutans at Animal Hospital, keeper Steve Spencook wtih a crocodilian, iguanas and other reptiles, Bird House exhibits, Members Day activities; the Small Mammal House, including otter, sloth, and red light exhibits. Film is followed by various Bronx Zoo footage, including: "Education staff; Member's tour; Brad House picking grape leaves. Food truck at loading platform, Baird Court, late afternoon, keeper putting up Wisent sign, [Bob] Montana and walkie talkie, Talking Storybook sign, money tree sign, tractor being fueled, moving Pili - Pili, [Bob] Montana at Wisent Coral, Tiger Train at the terminal, sign at geese pond, fish bay (sea lion), New Ideas sign, Talking Story Book, girl and food machine, feeding elephants, getting animals ready for riding track (camel), Sea Lion Pool closing, Fountain Circle in the morning, empty Crotona, 6:57 clock, 10:00 clock, 7:30 clock, people resting, zoo police, umbrellas at cafeteria, garbage truck, [?] gate, Tiger Train at Fountain Circle, "five for feeding" sign, Tractor Train sign, Crotona field, Crane walk"--Original can label.

Dates

  • 1961

Creator

Access Information

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Extent

1 film : Color; Silent; Positive Print; Acetate Base; 24 frames per second; Kodachrome Print ; 16mm

31 minutes

500 feet (Media Diameter: 15 inches)

Language of Materials

English

General

Digitized in 2023 under the WCS Archives' Shelby White and Leon Levy Film Initiative.

Repository Details

Part of the Wildlife Conservation Society Archives Repository

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