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Contains 177 Results:

Miscellaneous animal footage for Canada, 1959 - 1960

 Item — Container: Unit 6, Shelf: A
Identifier: 103588
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"Miscellaneous animal footage for Canada"--Original can label.

Dates: 1959 - 1960

Octopus and squid, 1964

 Item — Container: Unit 6, Shelf: G
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Close-up of octopus and squid at the New York Aquarium.

Dates: 1964

Pandora, 1939 - 1940

 Item — Container: Unit 6, Shelf: A
Identifier: 103601
Scope and Contents A film starring Pandora, the Bronx Zoo's first panda. Film has intertitles with mentions of Pandora at home from a day at the 1939-1940 World's Fair. "'Pandora our baby giant panda arrived in July. On her first green grass since China"--Film titles. Pandora is playing in different areas than the footage in the reels: 104357B, 104378, 104426E. Throughout the film there is a tire, grass in the foreground, a ramp, a ball and a fence that Pandora straddles. This is the negative of the reel...
Dates: 1939 - 1940

Passeriformes, 1961

 Item — Container: Unit 6, Shelf: F
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Close-ups of a variety of passeriformes, including vermillion flycatcher, on exhibit at the Bronx Zoo.

Dates: 1961

Passeriformes, 1960

 Item — Container: Unit 6, Shelf: F
Scope and Contents Edited reel of birds on exhibit at the Bronx Zoo, mostly close-up shots of birds, a few glimpses of zookeepers working with birds."Passeriformes - perching birds. Family Coerebidae. Sugar Birds (honeycreepers). [?]uhiva. Family Thraupidae. Orange-breasted tanager. Family Pipridae. Coronated manakin. Family Corvidae. Baby red-billed blue magpies. Mr. Scott and baby blue jays. Family ptilonorhynchidae regent bower bird. Laniidae long-tailed fiscal (?) E. Africa. Azure jay. Picarthtes...
Dates: 1960

Passeriformes (Footage from Wild Gold, Oilbirds, and Rare Birds in Trinidad), 1958 - 1960

 Item — Container: Unit 6, Shelf: D
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Outtakes shot list: "Birds shot for Wild Gold (identify). Caprimulgiformes - oilbirds in cave & baby oilbird in hand. Passeriformes - Family Icteridae. Cacique in tree young cacique & nest. Passeriformes (Family Cotingidae) Mossy throated Bell bird in tree & in hand. Caprimulgiformes -Tony Frogmouth. Manakin Display taken from "Capturing Rare Birds in Trinidad" order Passeriformes"--Original box label.

Dates: 1958 - 1960

Pelicaniformes, 1961

 Item — Container: Unit 6, Shelf: F
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Pelicaniformes flying in the sky.

Dates: 1961

Pelicaniformes, sulidae: Boobies, 1961

 Item — Container: Unit 6, Shelf: F
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Edited film of people interacting with boobies in the wild. This film has no title credits.

Dates: 1961

Penguins, 1964 - 1966

 Item — Container: Unit 6, Shelf: F
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Zookeepers feeding and working with penguins at the New York Aquarium. "Discovery Cove"--Film leader.

Dates: 1964 - 1966

Penguins in the Penguin House, 1956

 Item — Container: Unit 6, Shelf: B
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Shot list of footage: "Penguin sequence - map. (shot for Patagonia) section similar in around the year 1955. Penguins in the Penguin House. Sphenisciformes - Penguins. Penguins at Aquarium - Arrival of Penguins"--Original box label.

Dates: 1956