Unit 4

Travelogue and wildlife survey of northwest Burma. Some shots of local people, elephants, landscapes, and takin, including one takin who is roped and put on a plane in a crate. Film concludes with animal's arrival at the Bronx Zoo. "Takin Country in Northwest Burma. Photographed by Oliver M.B. Milton and Richard D. Estes, Burma Wildlife Survey, 1959"--Film credits.

"Rockefeller University presents Behavior and ecology of Vervet monkeys in the Maasai Amboseli Game Reserve in Kenya by Thomas T. Struhsaker New York Zoological Society and The Rockefeller University"--Film credits.

"Photographed by James R. Simon"--Film credits. Footage of bears, including cub, and bison, including calf and herd running.

Footage of Bronx Zoo and New York Aquarium staff, at exhibits, offices, and indoor facilities. William Conway; Lee Crandall; Grace Davall; Charles Gandal; Hernon Dowling; Joe Davis and secretary; John Tee-Van; Gordon Cuyler; Publications, Education, Administrative, Facilities staff; Aage Svend Olsen; and Christopher Coates.

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.

"Clownfish. Striped skunk clownfish. clownfish fanning eggs. Clownfish - 1961"--Original can label.

"Excerpts taken from: Takin trails in Burma, Background for a baby walrus 1959, Okapi"--Original box label.

Outtakes shot list: "Micropodiformes (apodiformes) hummingbird, Comte de Paris and Mr. Scott. Anseriformes family anhimidae horned screamer chick"--Original box label.

Outtakes shot list: "Piciformes - family: galbulidae. Beebe feeding young jacamars. Curl - crested aricari toucan order: piciformes family: ramphastidae. Bird - hummer? To be identified. Flight of African flamingos taken from African and Asian birds. Miscellaneous birds to be identified. Struthioniformes - ostrich"--Original box label.

"Charadriiformes - Puffins, tufted puffins family: Alcidae. African pelican flight taken from Asia and Africa Birds. Original."--Box label. "Baby wattled crane"--Film leader.