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Unit 6

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Contains 177 Results:

Secretary Bird Encounters Snake!, 1940

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

"Secretary Bird Encounters Snake! Presented by Richard Fidler"--Film credits.

Dates: 1940

[1966] Zoo Short Stories, 1966

 Item — Container: Unit 6, Shelf: E
Identifier: 104620
Scope and Contents

Year in review film featuring young apes, lions, ostriches, and baboons. "New York Zoological Society Presents Zoo Short Stories. Incidents large and small that made a lively year at the New York Zoological Photographed by Sam Dunton. Technical assistance Park Herbert J. Knobloch"--Film credits.

Dates: 1966

[1968] The Zoo and New York Aquarium, 1968

 Item — Container: Unit 6, Shelf: E
Identifier: 104615B
Scope and Contents

Year in review film featuring flamingos, giraffes, sharks, and penguins at the NY Aquarium footage. The film has footage of Bronx Zoo staff interacting with bears, baby ostriches, and ducks. "New York Zoological Society presents Zoo and Aquarium 1968. Photographed by Sam Dunton. Technical assistance Park Herbert J. Knobloch"--Film credits.

Dates: 1968

[1977?] The Society: Twenty Years of Change, circa 1977

 Item — Container: Unit 6, Shelf: C
Identifier: 104511
Scope and Contents

Year in review film with shots of the Bronx Zoo's monorail, flamingos, and the New York Aquarium.

Dates: circa 1977

Adelie Penguins of the Antarctic, 1957

 Item — Container: Unit 6, Shelf: C
Identifier: 104506
Scope and Contents "Adelie penguins navigation. Research and photography by R. L. Penney J. T. Emlen. John Hopkins University and the University of Wisconsin. Research supported by the National Science Foundation and Office of Antarctic Program. Additional photography by Sam Dunton from the Animal Behaviour Laboratory. The Institute for Research in Animal Behaviour"--Film credits. "A Sterling Educational film. Records the life cycle of the AdeĢlie penguins, showing the trek of the adult bird over the frozen...
Dates: 1957

Alligator Poaching, Everglades National Parks, 1969

 Item — Container: Unit 6, Shelf: B
Identifier: 104494
Scope and Contents

Film featuring shots of the Everglades National Parks and interviews with various people speaking about alligator poaching.

Dates: 1969

High Over the Borders, 1942

 Item — Container: Unit 6, Shelf: B
Identifier: 104500
Scope and Contents

"New York Zoological Zoological Society presents High Over the Borders" --Film credits. "An account of migrating birds which leave their Canadian habitat each autumn and head southward. Explains that banding of these wild birds has revealed that the birds fly down the Mississippi, over Mexico and Central America, some even crossing the High Andes to winter in Peru"--Worldcat.

Dates: 1942

The Life of the Waters, 1952

 Item — Container: Unit 6, Shelf: G
Identifier: 104695
Scope and Contents

"An NYZS film produced with support from the friends of the new New York Aquarium"--Film credits. Close-up shots of underwater coral, starfish, and colorful fish.

Dates: 1952

Expedition to a Puffin Island, 1965

 Item — Container: Unit 6, Shelf: D
Identifier: 104588
Scope and Contents

Film documenting biologists gathering, crating, and transporting birds off Solander Island, bound for the Bronx Zoo. "New York Zoological Society Presents Expedition to a Puffin Island. From a jagged pinnacle of rock off the Pacific Coast of Canada came birds for a pioneering exhibit at the Bronx Zoo. Photographed on Solander Island by David and Lyn Hancock"--Film credits.

Dates: 1965

Strangers from Afar, 1947

 Item — Container: Unit 6, Shelf: D
Identifier: 104594
Scope and Contents

"Some of the world's rarest animals in the Bronx Zoo"--Film credits. Features variety of rare animals in the Bronx Zoo; includes footage of platypus and Bronx Zoo's platypusary.

Dates: 1947