Unit 4

Scope and Contents Film about NYZS's history of field conservation, through the development of its Wildlife Conservation International division. Among those featured are William Hornaday, William Beebe, Fairfield Osborn, William Conway, George Schaller, Tom Struhsaker, Patricia Moehlman, Onesmo Moiyoi, David Western, Claudio Campagna, Warren Brockelman, Dale Lewis, Stuart Strahl, Alan Rabinowitz, Roger and Katherine Payne, Emil Dolensek, Dee Boersma, Rodney Jackson, Amy Vedder, Charles Munn. "Director and...

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Child members of the American Junior Red Cross and Bronx Zoo staff members holding baby animals for a Red Cross event inside the Bronx Zoo's Administration building. Film also includes American Junior Red Cross members with baby animals and Helen Martini.

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Footage of baby gorilla Patty Cake in diapers and with an animal keeper in a baby pool. Reel shot list: "Children's Zoo opening. Baby gorillas at farm nursery, with B[rad] House, S. King's mother and A. Kemper. Patty Cake, gorilla, in Animal Hospital nursery. Skyride. Press preview"--Original box label.

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"Illustrated by systematic records from the collections of the New York Zoological Society"--Film credits. "Chapter XVII Marsupials Continued and The Egg-Laying Mammals"--Film titles. Footage of animals interspersed with titles.

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"The New York Zoological Society The Pennsylvania State University National Science Foundation Presents The Mountain Gorilla. Photographed and written by George B. Schaller. Fieldwork director John T. Emlen JR. Advisor C.R. Carpenter. Produced by Pennsylvania State University. Editing D.P. Duvall. Sound Recording G.H. Hutchison. Narration by C.R. Carpenter"--Film credits.

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Film showcasing the facilities and blueprints of the on-site hospital at the Bronx Zoo.

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Edited compilation film shot in the Bronx Zoo; shots include pandas, hippos, prairie dogs, kangaroos, ostriches, giant pandas, lions, and many other animals on exhibit, as well as elephants bathing in the Bronx River. Also includes Rocking Stone and related signage and shots of visitors. "Photographed by Chas. E. Roehm"--Film credits.

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Footage of Bronx Zoo Education Department summer course activities. Close-ups of and mid-shots of middle and high school students. Much of the footage is used in Adventure in Learning (WCS-5005-104359). "Education Department. Activities, courses. Summer Courses - Michele in Classroom and various parts of the zoo"--Original box label.

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Year in review film featuring footage of Przewalski's horses on the Bronx Zoo's Rare Animal Range, Bronx Zoo gorillas painting and keepers trying to get the paintings back from them, belugas at the New York Aquarium, tapirs at the Bronx Zoo, a puppet show at the Bronx Zoo, and gemsbok arriving at St. Catherines Island.

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...