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Antarctica - Weddell seals, reel 2A, 1964

 Item — Container: Unit 2, Shelf: C
A digitized copy of this item is accessible by clicking on the image.
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Scope and Contents

Footage from Peter Gimbel and Carleton Ray taken during Ray's Antarctica studies. Reel 2A includes footage of researchers in scuba gear and on the ice, underwater footage of seals and jellyfish and human divers, researchers on the snow with a seal and a newly born pup [note the presence of blood presumably from the birth], researchers cutting into the snow, United States Antarctic Program equipment, scuba divers putting gear on, penguins in the snow, researchers in a lab, researcher appearing collect samples from a seal.

Dates

  • 1964

Creator

Access Information

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Extent

1 film : Color; Silent; Positive print; Acetate base; 24 frames per second; Color reversal master positive ; 16mm

23 minutes

820 feet (Media Diameter: 12 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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