Unit 4
Contains 169 Results:
Bird Habitat, circa 1950-1975
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.
Bronx Zoo, by Charles Roehm, films 3 and 4, 1939 - 1941
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.
Bronx Zoo Animals [Segment from series News Magazine of the Screen], 1952
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.
Duck-billed platypus, 1922
"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.
Galapagos [Segment from NBC-TV Today Show series], 1961
Footage from Galapagos of tortoises, birds, elephant seals, and iguanas. Connection to WCS unidentified.
Living Natural History XVII, 1925
"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.
Metropolitan Zoo: Wildlife Crisis, 1992
The WCS Archives holds no additional information about this film at this time.
Moose of Kenai, 1943 or 1963
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.
Newfoundland and the Investigation of the Harp and Hood Seal Fishery, 1948
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.
Short-finned pilot whales in Gasparilla Island, Florida, 1971
"Short-finned pilot whales in Gasparilla Island, Florida August 20, 1971. Photographed by M.Q. Peterson"--Film credits.