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.
Year in review film. "A photographic report on the year's events great and small"--Opening film credits. Includes shots of Great Ape House exterior, opening of the new Aquatic Birds House and interior footage of the exhibit.
Year in review film featuring footage of Przewalski's horses on the Bronx Zoo's Rare Animal Range, Bronx Zoo gorillas painting and keepers trying to get the paintings back from them, belugas at the New York Aquarium, tapirs at the Bronx Zoo, a puppet show at the Bronx Zoo, and gemsbok arriving at St. Catherines Island.
Film commissioned to celebrate NYZS's seventy-fifth anniversary in 1970. The majority of the footage is from the 1960s and 1970s, but the reel opens up with early footage and still photography. There is some brief footage of the NYZS Building at the 1939-1940 World's Fair, the Institute for Research in Animal Behavior facility at the Bronx Zoo, the counstruction of the Osborn Laboratories of Marine Sciences, the opening of the World of Darkness and interior shots of that exhibit, dolphins at the New York Aquarium, and some exterior shots of the World of Birds building.
Film showcasing the facilities and blueprints of the on-site hospital at the Bronx Zoo.
Edited compilation film shot in the Bronx Zoo; shots include pandas, hippos, prairie dogs, kangaroos, ostriches, giant pandas, lions, and many other animals on exhibit, as well as elephants bathing in the Bronx River. Also includes Rocking Stone and related signage and shots of visitors. "Photographed by Chas. E. Roehm"--Film credits.
Footage of Bronx Zoo Education Department summer course activities. Close-ups of and mid-shots of middle and high school students. Much of the footage is used in Adventure in Learning (WCS-5005-104359). "Education Department. Activities, courses. Summer Courses - Michele in Classroom and various parts of the zoo"--Original box label.
"Illustrated by systematic records from the collections of the New York Zoological Society"--Film credits. "Chapter XVII Marsupials Continued and The Egg-Laying Mammals"--Film titles. Footage of animals interspersed with titles.
Reel shot list: "Children's Zoo opening. Baby gorillas at farm nursery, with B[rad] House, S. King's mother and A. Kemper. Patty Cake, gorilla, in Animal Hospital nursery. Skyfari, press preview"--Original box label. Includes footage of baby gorilla Patty Cake in diapers and with an animal keeper in a baby pool.
"The New York Zoological Society, The Pennsylvania State University, The National Science Foundation Present The Mountain Gorilla. Photographed and written by George B. Schaller. Fieldwork director John T. Emlen Jr. Advisor C.R. Carpenter. Produced by Pennsylvania State University. Editing D.P. Duvall. Sound Recording G.H. Hutchison. Narration by C.R. Carpenter"--Film credits.
Child members of the American Junior Red Cross and Bronx Zoo staff members holding baby animals for a Red Cross event inside the Bronx Zoo's Administration building. Film also includes American Junior Red Cross members with baby animals and Helen Martini.
Film about NYZS's history of field conservation, through the development of its Wildlife Conservation International division. Among those featured are William Hornaday, William Beebe, Fairfield Osborn, William Conway, George Schaller, Tom Struhsaker, Patricia Moehlman, Onesmo Moiyoi, David Western, Claudio Campagna, Warren Brockelman, Dale Lewis, Stuart Strahl, Alan Rabinowitz, Roger and Katherine Payne, Emil Dolensek, Dee Boersma, Rodney Jackson, Amy Vedder, Charles Munn. "Director and Editor Thomas Veltre. Written by Don Goddard. Research/Assistant Editor Justina Ray. Narrator Marilyn Nichols"--Film credits.
"Produced in cooperation with Evan J. Anton. Adapted and narrated by William Bridges. Photographed in Africa by Saul and Lilian Blickman"--Film credits. Provides an overview of lions, their distribution and habitat, and behavior, for a popular audience.
Edited black-and-white film of NYZS employees playing baseball, on different baseball fields. There are insert shots of Yankee Stadium, and then various close-up shots of NYZS employees on the field. Employees include Fairfield Osborn, William Beebe, Herbert Knobloch, John Tee-Van, Lee Crandall. "Play ball!"--Film credits. Followed by color footage of Bronx Zoo tractor train, Children's Zoo, and riding animals.
Film depicting Carleton Ray's studies of the Weddel seal in Antarctica. In addition to footage of seals, includes shots of research facilities, researchers, and penguins. Includes footage of researchers collecting seals for study and subsequent study activities. Includes underwater (under the ice) footage of researchers scuba diving. "Antarctic Laboratory. A study of the submarine environment and ecology of the Weddell seal. Sponsored by the New York Zoological Society under a grant from the National Science Foundation. Grateful acknowledgment is made to the Commander, Antarctic Support Forces, U.S. Navy, and the Biological Laboratory at McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. Photographed in Antarctica by Lieut. David Lavallee, USN, Carleton Ray, New York Aquarium, Fleet Mobile Photogenic Group, USN"--Film credits.
Film documenting biologists gathering, crating, and transporting birds off Solander Island, bound for the Bronx Zoo. "New York Zoological Society Presents Expedition to a Puffin Island. From a jagged pinnacle of rock off the Pacific Coast of Canada came birds for a pioneering exhibit at the Bronx Zoo. Photographed on Solander Island by David and Lyn Hancock"--Film credits.
Edited compilation film shot in the Bronx Zoo; shots include entrance sign, and a variety of animals in their exhibits. "Photographed by Chas. E. Roehm"--Film credits.
"Some of the world's rarest animals in the Bronx Zoo"--Film credits. Features variety of rare animals in the Bronx Zoo; includes footage of platypus and Bronx Zoo's platypusary.
