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Unit 7

 Container

Contains 48 Results:

Members Clean Up Day, part 2, 1990

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

Adult members of the Bronx Zoo cleaning up the park on a rainy day.

Dates: 1990

Nesting emerald hummingbird and cock of the rock, 1967

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

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

Dates: 1967

Northern waters, fishing and seining, circa 1950-1975

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

Unedited footage of fishing boats with seine nets in the water, some shots of people on the deck of the boat.

Dates: circa 1950-1975

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

Pelican roundup, 1970

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

Footage of Bronx Zoo staff in a canoe rounding up pelicans for annual return to winter quarters.

Dates: 1970

Skyfari rescue operation, 1979

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

Ground and air footage of the rescue operation of a tram stuck mid-air of the Skyfari ride at the Bronx Zoo, April 30, 1979.

Dates: 1979

Special guests and functions, 1963-1968

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

Reel shot list: "UN visit, garden party 1963, more UN visit, garden part 1968, 150 millionth visitor 1968, falconry demonstration 1968, 150 millionth visitor 1968"--Original can label.

Dates: 1963-1968

Walking catfish, 1969

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

Close-ups of a catfish out of water, walking on pebbles and sand.

Dates: 1969

Walruses, 1958 - 1959

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

"Alaska footage for "Background for a baby walrus" 1959. Kodachrome original cuts"--Original box label. Footage of walrus hunt by Indigenous people, including footage of people skinning walrus, removing meat, and head. Includes footage a walrus being crated and put onto an Alaskan Airlines plane. Much of reel is documents Indigenous families without walruses in the frame. Aerial landscapes of Alaska and multiple shots of the planes transporting the walruses.

Dates: 1958 - 1959

Whales, reel 01, 1971

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

Unedited footage of a group of penguins on a beach taken by Roger Payne.

Dates: 1971