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Unit 7

 Container

Contains 13 Results:

Collecting Fishes for the New York Aquarium, 1934

 Item — Container: Unit 7, Shelf: F
Scope and Contents Film is incomplete and does not include ending credits. "Photographed by S. C. Dunton. The Aquarium's well boat Seahorse, which collects most of the local marine specimens. ...And year after year the Aquarium continues to be one of New York City's most popular public institutions. A friendly pup comes to inspect the hand, a piece of driftwood. A trip to Sandy Hook goes underway. Tanks and various equipment are brought down to the little vessel. Sea robins, blackfish and other local...
Dates: 1934

[Various Bronx Zoo and New York Aquarium footage], 1970

 Item — Container: Unit 7, Shelf: F
Scope and Contents

African Plains exhibits at the Bronx Zoo. "Antelopes, lions. Octopus eggs and young. Young ostrich, Shark tagging"--Original can label.

Dates: 1970

Armed Services Day at New York Aquarium, 1960

 Item — Container: Unit 7, Shelf: F
Scope and Contents

"Aquarium 1960- Armed Services Day, Bathysphere, well digging, and hurricane "[D?]onna"--Original can label.

Dates: 1960

Bronx Zoo nursery, 1962

 Item — Container: Unit 7, Shelf: F
Scope and Contents

Outtakes of Bronx Zoo nursery staff caring for young animals: "Exterior of nursery, civet, spectacled owls, cockatoo, kangaroo and [piqcon?]"--Original can label.

Dates: 1962

Cioniiformes, Phoenicopteridae: Flamingos, 1952-1960

 Item — Container: Unit 7, Shelf: F
Scope and Contents

Outtakes of flamingos both at the Bronx Zoo and standing in various bodies of water in the wild.

Dates: 1952-1960

Grizzly bear, reel 13, 1963

 Item — Container: Unit 7, Shelf: F
Scope and Contents

The WCS Archives holds no additional information about this film at this time.

Dates: 1963

Gruiformes: Cranes and rails, 1955-1964

 Item — Container: Unit 7, Shelf: F
Scope and Contents

Outtakes shot list: On the grounds of the Bronx Zoo: "Whooping cranes, grus americana, kori bustard, crowned Crane and Bustard from Wild Gold/black crane, ground cranes sun bittern, coot family, sun bittern baby, and African Plains exhibit"--Original can label.

Dates: 1955-1964

Institute for Research in Animal Behavior, 1966

 Item — Container: Unit 7, Shelf: F
Scope and Contents

Outtakes shot list: "The I.R.A.B. dome, interior of I.R.A.B. dome, I.R.A.B. penguins and cooler"--Original can label.

Dates: 1966

Malagasy lemurs, 1963

 Item — Container: Unit 7, Shelf: F
Scope and Contents

Footage from Alison Jolly's NYZS-sponsored studies on lemurs in Madagascar. "Social grooming, licking wounds etcetera. Native populations of Malagasy and pet lemur. Inter troop chase, etcetera, sleep"--Original can label.

Dates: 1963

Parakeet hernia surgery, 1958

 Item — Container: Unit 7, Shelf: F
Scope and Contents

Close-up footage of a hernia surgery being performed on a parakeet.

Dates: 1958