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Unit 6

 Container

Contains 177 Results:

Winter in Jackson Hole Wildlife Park, 1951

 Item — Container: Unit 6, Shelf: C
Identifier: 104507
Scope and Contents

"NYZS Presents Winter in Jackson Hole Wildlife Park, Photographed by James R. Simon"--Film credits.

Dates: 1951

Zoo Babies, 1944

 Item — Container: Unit 6, Shelf: E
Identifier: 104626
Scope and Contents

"Zoo Babies. Photographed in the New York Zoological Park by Claude W. Leister. Among the birds staring a family of Canadian geese. "Barney" the first young sea lion born and raised at the zoological park. Master Pigmy Hippopotamus is truly a smaller edition of his mother. A young grey kangaroo and opossum. A baby Himalayan Tahr. Young polar bears were newly received from the Arctic. A pair of lion cubs. A young llama, the South American camel. Z stands for zebras"--Film credits.

Dates: 1944

[Antarctica], 1964

 Item — Container: Unit 6, Shelf: G
Scope and Contents

Overexposed and darkly lit outtakes of natural holes in the sea ice and members of the Antarctica expedition.

Dates: 1964

[Antarctica], 1963

 Item — Container: Unit 6, Shelf: G
Scope and Contents

Researchers testing water indoors at the Antarctic research facilities.

Dates: 1963

[Bat echolocation film excerpt], 1943

 Item — Container: Unit 6, Shelf: E
Scope and Contents

Film excerpt from bat echolocation film, soft-focused long shot images of bats flying, no titles.

Dates: 1943

[Bears in Bronx Zoo], 1968

 Item — Container: Unit 6, Shelf: G
Scope and Contents

Some shots of William Conway and NYZS staff working on the following: "1968 Intro of polar bears to exhibit. 1968 Bear Den construction. 1968 Arrival of Kodiaks. 1968 Introduction of Kodiaks to exhibit. 1968 shifting polar bears"--Original can label.

Dates: 1968

[Belgian Congo, Outtakes], 1948

 Item — Container: Unit 6, Shelf: E
Scope and Contents

Outtakes from William Bridges' visit to the Congo. It is only landscape footage of palm trees, fields, and the outskirts of the village buildings.

Dates: 1948

[Bronx Zoo crowds], circa 1954-1963

 Item — Container: Unit 6, Shelf: G
Scope and Contents

Establishing shots of "Crowds. Opening day at the Reptile House. Faces at the Ape House. Crowds at the special interest"--Original can label.

Dates: circa 1954-1963

[Bronx Zoo Extinct Animal Graveyard creation], 1970

 Item — Container: Unit 6, Shelf: D
Scope and Contents

A shot of a man in a suit hand painting the tombstones of extinct animals.

Dates: 1970

[Bronx Zoo meadow] (A-Roll), 1959

 Item — Container: Unit 6, Shelf: C
Scope and Contents

A single long shot of a meadow at the Bronx Zoo.

Dates: 1959