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Let's Go to the Zoo! A Camera Tour that Brings you the Highlights of 1951, 1955

 Item — Container: Unit 3, Shelf: F
Identifier: 104343

Scope and Contents

"Let's go to the Zoo. Special staff lecture film. Composite footage from 'Around the year in the Zoo'--1953, 1954 and 1955. Red-eared monkey; four young chimps; baby wanderoo monkey (Kenneth); Wanderoo, older with mirror; Helen Martini nursing baby tiger; Helen Martini nursing jaguar triplets; H.M. and tiger and jaguar cubs playing in Nursery; Tawny frogmouths; Otto the potto; four baby cottontails, Flip the sealion in Hospital; Interior of Reptile H. including Indian Rock puthon and eggs; Kamodo dragon lizards; high-speed rattler photographic set-up; digging out of platypussary; Oka (lowland gor) with leaves and vines; Diven and Andy (Orang); Andy and Sandra with burlap sack"--Original can label.

Dates

  • 1955

Creator

Access Information

49 films in the NYZS/WCS Edited Films series have been digitized by the WCS Archives; 45 are publicly available online. Links to digitized items can be found at the item level in this finding aid or at the WCS Archives Digital Collection page. Items that have not been digitized are not currently accessible. Please consult the WCS Archives for further information.

Extent

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

14 minutes

510 feet (Media Diameter: 11 inches)

Language of Materials

English

Repository Details

Part of the Wildlife Conservation Society Archives Repository

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