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Shows footage of New York Zoological Society President Fairfield Osborn at events at the Bronx Zoo and New York Aquarium, Osborn hosting the Shah and Empress of Iran, various exhibits including the Aquatic Birds House and the Red Light exhibits in the Small Mammal House, Osborn at New York Aquarium events, and the construction of Osborn Laboratories of Marine Science.

"Around the year in the zoo. Interesting animals and events in the New York Zoological Park. Photographed by Sam Dunton. Directed and Narrated by William Bridges Curator of Publications. Production Associate Herbert J. Knobloch Assistant Curator of Education"--Film credits. Year-in-review film for 1961. Footage includes Great Apes House, baby orangutans at Animal Hospital, keeper Steve Spencook wtih a crocodilian, iguanas and other reptiles, Bird House exhibits, Members Day activities; the Small Mammal House, including otter, sloth, and red light exhibits. Film is followed by various Bronx Zoo footage, including: "Education staff; Member's tour; Brad House picking grape leaves. Food truck at loading platform, Baird Court, late afternoon, keeper putting up Wisent sign, [Bob] Montana and walkie talkie, Talking Storybook sign, money tree sign, tractor being fueled, moving Pili - Pili, [Bob] Montana at Wisent Coral, Tiger Train at the terminal, sign at geese pond, fish bay (sea lion), New Ideas sign, Talking Story Book, girl and food machine, feeding elephants, getting animals ready for riding track (camel), Sea Lion Pool closing, Fountain Circle in the morning, empty Crotona, 6:57 clock, 10:00 clock, 7:30 clock, people resting, zoo police, umbrellas at cafeteria, garbage truck, [?] gate, Tiger Train at Fountain Circle, "five for feeding" sign, Tractor Train sign, Crotona field, Crane walk"--Original can label.

Footage from Carleton Ray taken during his Antarctica studies. Reel 1A has footage of seals, and penguins, and research scientists, diving and with audio equipment. Includes underwater footage of seals and human diver.

Footage from Peter Gimbel and Carleton Ray taken during Ray's Antarctica studies. Reel 2A includes footage of researchers in scuba gear and on the ice, underwater footage of seals and jellyfish and human divers, researchers on the snow with a seal and a newly born pup [note the presence of blood presumably from the birth], researchers cutting into the snow, United States Antarctic Program equipment, scuba divers putting gear on, penguins in the snow, researchers in a lab, researcher appearing collect samples from a seal.

Footage from Carleton Ray taken during his Antarctica studies. Reel 5 is shot underwater, below ice. Shows scuba diver swimming underwater, seal swimming underwater and emerging through hole in ice, jellyfish below ice.

Film includes footage of Carleton Ray and others collecting fish and invertebrates for the New York Aquarium; shots of the Aquarium's laboratories and interior tanks; the electric eel exhibit; shots of visitors at exterior tanks; footage of fish and invertebrates swimming in tanks. " Photographed by Carlton Ray and Sam Dunton. Produced with the assistance of Louis Mowbray, the Curator of Bermuda Aquarium"--Film credits.

Film showcasing antelopes at the Bronx Zoo and in their wild habitat in the plains of Africa. Opens at Bronx Zoo's Heads and Horns Museum, followed by footage from the Bronx Zoo's African Plains. Majority of film shows antelopes in central Africa.

Close-up footage of animals getting dental work at the Bronx Zoo.

Film on animal behavior research at the Bronx Zoo. Includes discussions of behavior experiments involving of cock-of-the-rock, toucan, aligator (French horn response), giant tortoises, lions, and elephants.

"A Day at the Zoo. As told by John Kieran a New York Zoological Society member. Photographed and arranged by Stacy Woodard the photographer of The River, Chico, and other nature films"--Film credits.

"Photographed by James R. Simon"--Film credits. Footage of bears, including cub, and bison, including calf and herd running.

"The Rockefeller University presents Behavior and Ecology of Vervet Monkeys in the Masai Amboseli Game Reserve, Kenya by Thomas T. Struhsaker, New York Zoological Society and The Rockefeller University"--Film credits.

Film illustrating the process of planning for the Bronx Zoo's Congo Gorilla Forest Exhibit. The majority of the footage is of artists' renditions of exhibits and architectural plans. Among staff in the film are John Gwynne, Walter Deichmann, William Conway, Amy Vedder, Lee Ehmke, Annette Berkovits, Sue Chin, and Don Lisowy. Actress Linda Hunt provided the narration.

A snowy wintertime tour of the animals on exhibit at the Bronx Zoo. "Zoo Topics 1938. Photographed in the New York Zoological Park by Claude Leister. A snowy morning in January. A young hyrax is born in the Small Mammal House. We received a baby giant ant-eater. Their food is the standard ant-eater diet of milk, eggs, and chopped meat. A pair of springboks, the first in many years. We exhibit the rare nyala for the first time. The beavers build a new house. In the hospital 'Mike' the young orang has a bite to eat. Then gets a rub down with a well-known baby oil. 'Johnny Walker' is allowed to go outdoors with 'Tish' his inseparable baboon companion."--Film titles.

A film letter documenting the expedition led by Olaus and Margaret (Mardy) Murie during the summer of 1956 along the Sheenjek River in northern Alaska. The expedition was sponsored by the New York Zoological Society and included George Schaller as a young assistant. The film is narrated by Olaus and Mardy Murie and was filmed by Robert Krear and produced by the Conservation Foundation.