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Unit 3

 Container

Contains 194 Results:

Kibale Forest, reels 13-17, 1972-04-19

 Item — Container: Unit 3, Shelf: E
Scope and Contents

Close-up shots of monkeys in trees, and medium establishing shots of different landscapes. "New York Zoo - Rockefeller Uni. Gasser-Hall. Dr. T. T. Struhsaker"--Note in original can.

Dates: 1972-04-19

Malagasy lemurs, reel 5, 1963

 Item — Container: Unit 3, Shelf: A
Scope and Contents

Animal hospital and enclosure footage towards tail end.

Dates: 1963

Narwhal (Outtakes), circa 1969

 Item — Container: Unit 3, Shelf: A
Scope and Contents

"Sections of Narwhale-1969 (ch's and ec's). May have been blown up from 8mm and made into a Master"--Can label.

Dates: circa 1969

New York Zoo Trustees film, 1941

 Item — Container: Unit 3, Shelf: F
Scope and Contents

The reel opens up a shipment of turtles arriving, zookeepers transporting animals, a crowded parking lot, crowds of visitors at the zoo, birthday balloons and a celebration for a chimpanzee. The second half of the film starts with divers in the ocean, sharks at the New York Aquarium and jellyfish.

Dates: 1941

New York Zoological Society titles, beginning and end, 1965

 Item — Container: Unit 3, Shelf: B
Scope and Contents

Extra footage of film credits, titles, and NYZS logos. "1) Great days in the zoo, 2)Happy Birthday, 3)New Ideas and Something Always Happening at the Bronx Zoo, 4) NYZS shield 5) 'The end'--Original can label.

Dates: 1965

Platypus, circa 1950s

 Item — Container: Unit 3, Shelf: B
Scope and Contents

Footage of a platypus and people collecting water in vials.

Dates: circa 1950s

Pongidae: Orangutan, 1952

 Item — Container: Unit 3, Shelf: G
Scope and Contents

An assemblage of footage of young orangutans Andy and Sandra playing outside on exhibit at the Bronx Zoo and in their indoor holding area with zookeepers.

Dates: 1952

Rattlesnake, 1974

 Item — Container: Unit 3, Shelf: A
Scope and Contents

The WCS Archives holds no additional information about this film at this time.

Dates: 1974

Seahorse, circa 1955-1958

 Item — Container: Unit 3, Shelf: B
Scope and Contents

Underwater study of adult and young seahorses in an aquarium. There is a good deal of footage shot with a hair stuck in the frame.

Dates: circa 1955-1958

Shark tank, 1979

 Item — Container: Unit 3, Shelf: E
Scope and Contents

Two medium shots of visitors in front of the New York Aquarium shark tank.

Dates: 1979