Box Unit 3

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Footage from the Department of Tropical Research work in Bermuda. Some shots are similar to Pathe's Beebe footage, but there are additional shots. Based on the black edges, this reel looks to be 16mm footage shot with a home movie camera, not a reduction print from 35mm nitrate negative. Presumed to be shot by Elswyth Thane. Further description pending digitization; expected October 2024.

Scope and Contents Home movie reels from Elswyth Thane of a Bermuda Oceanographic Expedition that may have been the twelfth for the Department of Tropical Research. Footage of Gloria Hollister's dog Trumps and expedition members on board the S. S. Fort Victoria. William Beebe and John Tee-Van are shown aboard a motorboat, staff embark on Nonsuch Island in Bermuda, Beebe and Tee-Van interact with a monkey, play catch with a ball, and hold up a puppy. Beebe and Tee-Van bathe the monkey. Staff observe a tortoise...

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An ocelot plays with a person wearing a zookeeper's uniform hat and holding a stick, outdoors on a lawn. A tayra in an interior, concrete area is fed a banana and gripped at the nape by a person wearing a keeper's uniform pants. An ocelot and a tayra were among the specimens brought to the Bronx Zoo from the Department of Tropical Research's twenty-third expedition in 1936.

Scope and Contents Edited film likey presented at NYZS Annual Meeting about the Department of Tropical Research's 54th expedition in Malaya, and narrated by Jocelyn Crane. Begins with preface showing William Beebe and Michael Tweedie, director of the Raffles Museum, followed by Beebe visiting the Johor Zoo. The Curious Crabs of Singapore documents Jocelyn Crane's studies on 32 species of Ocypodid crabs. Footage of Singapore waterfront, followed by footage and descriptions of various crabs, with focus on...

Scope and Contents Footage of birds; heliconia plant; insects; landscape; Chiriqui the monkey harnessed to a stand and playing with a small net; William Beebe using an anemometer to measure air velocity. William Beebe (with Chiriqui perched on his shoulder), Jocelyn Crane and Henry Fleming out in the field with a bird net; Chiriqui examining insects from William Beebe's hand; butterflies participating in a color preference study with color swatches; paintings of a flowering heliconia plant. This is the camera...

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Jocelyn Crane's field studies on the behaviour and ecology of Uca marionis crabs in an unidentified location. "Sina Marionis"--Original can label. "Annual meeting. Uca (pre....) bow (triangle symbol"--Note found inside the can. The name Uca marionis is no longer recognized; these are likely Gelasimus excisus.

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Edited film likely presented at NYZS Annual Meeting. DTR staff members building a new insectary on the grounds of Simla. Time lapse studies of the pupa, chrysalis, and cocoon stages of butterfly development. Footage of researcher, possibly Rosemary Kenedy, working with butterflies. "Butterfly Studies at the Tropical Research Center. Photographed by Russ Kline, Jocelyn Crane, Nautica Waterbury, Rosemary Kenedy"--Film Credits

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Edited film likely presented at an NYZS Annual Meeting. William Beebe greeting a visitor to Simla. Jocelyn Crane working in an insectary at Simla. Various examples of the trials conducted with butterflies to study color preferences and behavior. Macro photographic field studies of caterpillars and the egg, larva, pupa life cycle of the butterfly. "A Newsletter in pictures from the Trinidad Field station of the Department of Tropical Research. Photography by Rosemary Kenedy"--Film credits.

Scope and Contents Edited film presented at 1960 NYZS Annual Meeting. David Snow and William Beebe feeding, trapping, color banding, and collecting courting, plumage, and molt data on manakins. Snow with a parabolic microphone used for audio field recording. Ends with William Beebe's face emerging from behind binoculars. "Capturing Rare Birds. in Trinidad. Copyright New York Zoological Society MCMLX. Photographed at the Department of Tropical Research Station at "Simla" by Russ Kinne"--Film credits. "[Dr....

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Home movie footage of a possible christening. A baby dressed in white is being held by a collared clergy member. Originally housed in same box as reel 000104302, and possibly shot or collected by Elswyth Thane.