Unit 4

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A short narrated film featuring birds and sketches of a building. There are no credits in this film. "Craven films - Morris Ketchum."--Original box label.

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Newsreel featuring the camels, lions, gorillas, and zebras at the Bronx Zoo. The shots of children were removed from this print. "RKO Pathe News. Bronx Zoo Animals. The News Magazine of the Screen Produced by Warner Pathe News"--Film credits.

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"Duck-billed platypus (around 1922)"--Original can label. "Producer: Pathe. Various shots of the duck-billed platybus. Platybus brought to Bronx Zoo. Unloaded. Placed in cage. Swimming in water. Feeding. Being handled by keeper. Being washed. Creeping around. This is rather interesting material and is marked property of Pathe"--1942 NYZS Film Inventory.

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Footage from Galapagos of tortoises, birds, elephant seals, and iguanas. Connection to WCS unidentified.

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

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Film produced by the Alaska Game Commission, featuring Moose in the wild in the Kenai Fjords National Park. "During some winters moose have a hard time. Moose of Kenai"--Film credits.

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Film by the medical officer on a seal-hunting boat in the ice fields off St. John's. Graphic footage of seals being killed; footage and intertitles illustrate animal exploitation at sea. "Newfoundland and the Investigation of the Harp and Hood Seal Fishery. 1949 Production by Harry R. Lillie"--Film credits.

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"Short-finned pilot whales in Gasparilla Island, Florida August 20, 1971. Photographed by M.Q. Peterson"--Film credits.

Scope and Contents Film with intertitles narrating a boat expedition to Guadalupe Island, Mexico in search for an elephant seal for the San Diego Zoo. "The Seal Elephants of Guadalupe Island. Photographed by Robert L. Barkley. Filmed through the courtesy of the U.S. Navel Reserve. Forward: an expedition was made to Guadalupe Island, Mexico in search for an elephant seal for the San Diego Zoo. The expedition was led by Lt. E.W. Dort U.S.N.R. and Dr. Harry Wegeforth president of the S.D. Zoological Society in...

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"Malayan Film Unit Production. The purpose of this short film is to show something of the problems that face wildlife conservation in S.E. Asia. As many of the problems are identical in each country. The Federation of Malaya has been chosen as an example. This animal must be saved - Asiatic two-horned Rhinoceros. One of the world's largest animals less than 30 still survives in Burma today."--Film credits.