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The New York Aquarium: How its Exhibits are Collected and a Camera Tour of Stage One, 1958

 Item — Container: Unit 3, Shelf: F

Scope and Contents

Film includes footage of Carleton Ray and others collecting fish and invertebrates for the New York Aquarium; shots of the Aquarium's laboratories and interior tanks; the electric eel exhibit; shots of visitors at exterior tanks; footage of fish and invertebrates swimming in tanks. " Photographed by Carlton Ray and Sam Dunton. Produced with the assistance of Louis Mowbray, the Curator of Bermuda Aquarium"--Film credits.

Dates

  • 1958

Creator

Access Information

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Extent

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

18 minutes

650 feet (Media Diameter: 11 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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