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Unit 4

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Contains 169 Results:

Living Natural History XVII, 1925

 Item — Container: Unit 4, Shelf: D
Scope and Contents

"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.

Dates: 1925

The Mountain Gorilla, 1959

 Item — Container: Unit 4, Shelf: E
Identifier: 104459B
Scope and Contents

"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.

Dates: 1959

New York Zoological Society Hospital, 1948

 Item — Container: Unit 4, Shelf: C
Identifier: 104424C
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1948

Bronx Zoo, by Charles Roehm, films 3 and 4, 1939 - 1941

 Item — Container: Unit 4, Shelf: D
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1939 - 1941

Education Department activities and courses, 1966

 Item — Container: Unit 4, Shelf: D
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1966

[1975] Highlights 1975, 1975

 Item — Container: Unit 4, Shelf: C
Identifier: 104413
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1975

Anniversary: 75 years of the New York Zoological Society, 1970

 Item — Container: Unit 4, Shelf: C
Identifier: 104423B
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...
Dates: 1970

Zoo Topics, 1938

 Item — Container: Unit 4, Shelf: C
Identifier: 104407B
Scope and Contents A snowy wintertime tour of the animals on exhibit at the Bronx Zoo. "Zoo Topics 1938. Photographed in the New York Zoological Park by Claude Leister. A snowy morning in January. A young hyrax is born in the Small Mammal House. We received a baby giant ant-eater. Their food is the standard ant-eater diet of milk, eggs, and chopped meat. A pair of springboks, the first in many years. We exhibit the rare nyala for the first time. The beavers build a new house. In the hospital 'Mike' the young...
Dates: 1938

[1964] Always Something New at the Bronx Zoo, 1964

 Item — Container: Unit 4, Shelf: C
Identifier: 104406
Scope and Contents

Year in review film. "A photographic report on the year's events great and small"--Opening film credits. Includes shots of Great Ape House exterior, opening of the new Aquatic Birds House and interior footage of the exhibit.

Dates: 1964

Congo Gorilla Forest Planning, 1993

 Item — Container: Unit 4, Shelf: C
Identifier: 104400
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1993