Unit 4

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Film featuring the Bronx Zoo's giant tortoises, with footage of insects and butterflies.

Scope and Contents Film commissioned to celebrate NYZS's seventy-fifth anniversary in 1970. The majority of the footage is from the 1960s and 1970s, but the reel opens up with early footage and still photography. There is some brief footage of the NYZS Building at the 1939-1940 World's Fair, the Institute for Research in Animal Behavior facility at the Bronx Zoo, the counstruction of the Osborn Laboratories of Marine Sciences, the opening of the World of Darkness and interior shots of that exhibit, dolphins...

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Film featuring baby donkeys, camels, and peguins on exhibit at the Bronx Zoo. "Baby animals in the Bronx Zoo. Photographed in the New York Zoological Park by Sam Dunton"--Film credits.

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Film illustrating the process of planning for the Bronx Zoo's Congo Gorilla Forest Exhibit. The majority of the footage is of artists' renditions of exhibits and architectural plans. Among staff in the film are John Gwynne, Walter Deichmann, William Conway, Amy Vedder, Lee Ehmke, Annette Berkovits, Sue Chin, and Don Lisowy.

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Shows footage of Faifield Osborn at events at the Bronx Zoo and New York Aquarium, Osborn hosting the Shah and Empress of Iran, various exhibits including the Aquatic Birds House and the Red Light exhibits in the Small Mammal House, Osborn at New York Aquarium events, and the construction of Osborn Laboratories of Marine Science.

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Possibly related to NYZS Centennial in 1995.

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Film with intertitles of young gorillas playing in their enclosures at the Bronx Zoo. This reel is an incomplete excerpt from the film "Gorillas at Play and Maylasia at the Bronx. Photographed by Sam Dunton"--Film titles.

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Reel of Jamaica Bay Bird Sanctuary, mostly landscape shots of the bay, some footage of birds flying in the bay. "Department of Parks Jamaica Bay improvements proposed and existing. Jamaica Bay Bird Sanctuary"--Map in title credits.

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"Moto feeding from bottle. Mr. and Ms. Moto on rope. Many views of Moto in nursery. Moto at Knobloch's home. Moto with Michele"--Original can label.

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Mr. Moto, a Macaque monkey, introduces the animals of the zoo on an alphabetical tour from aardvark to zebra.