WCS Film Collection

Film illustrating the history of the New York Aquarium on its 90th anniversary.

Year in review film introducing the exhibits and research facilities at the newly relocated New York Aquarium at Coney Island.

Year in review film with footage of zoo exhibits, animals, staff, and visitors. Features shots of Bronx Zoo signage, including signs calling attention to endangered species; Aquatic Bird House construction; Animal Nursery. Followed by compilation footage of Bronx Zoo animals and visitor crowds, walruses in Alaska and at the New York Aquarium, the collecting of a beluga whale, and a beluga whale at the New York Aquarium.

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 including footage of ribbon cutting for the World of Darkness exhibit, various animals at the Bronx Zoo and New York Aquarium, and education activities at the Bronx Zoo.

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.

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.

Footage of unidentified men on a hunting trip. Shots of men skinning animals, wooded mountains, man cleaning gun around a campfire, and a snowball fight. The provenance of this film or why WCS would have it in its collection is unknown.

Footage of adult tapirs and baby tapir (including footage of adult tapirs mating) and snow leopard cub Snowball at the Bronx Zoo, New York Aquarium belugas and touch tanks with visitors, and Bronx Zoo polar bear.

Footage of Bronx Zoo and New York Aquarium staff, at exhibits, offices, and indoor facilities. William Conway; Lee Crandall; Grace Davall; Charles Gandal; Hernon Dowling; Joe Davis and secretary; John Tee-Van; Gordon Cuyler; Publications, Education, Administrative, Facilities staff; Aage Svend Olsen; and Christopher Coates.

Eclectic reel of footage including what appears to be a polluted Bronx River; researchers at work in the Osborn Laboratories of Marine Sciences; fireworks over Coney Island; chidlren fishing at the Bronx Zoo's casting pool; construction of the Bronx Zoo bison range; and unrelated footage of Jacques Cousteau's yellow diving saucer in water.

"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.

"The New York Aquarium is a meeting place for grace and beauty and grotesque form"--Opening titles. Film shows various New York Aquarium exhibits, including the new walrus pool, and research activities at the proposed Osborn Laboratories of Marine Sciences.

"Above and Below the Sea Ice of Antarctica. In this harsh world there is a continuing study of Weddell seal and other marine animals. Sponsored by the New York Zoological Society under a grant from the National Science Foundation. Grateful acknowledgement is made to the Commander, Antarctic Support Forces, US Navy, and the Biological Laboratory at McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. Photographed in Antarctica by Peter R. Gimbel, LT David Lavallee US Navy, Carleton Ray, New York Aquarium, Fleet Mobile Photographic Group, USN."--Film credits.

"Adelie Penguins Navigation. Research and photography by R.L. Penney J.T. Emlen. John Hopkins University and the University of Wisconsin. Research supported by the National Science Foundation and Office of Antarctic Program. Additional photography by Sam Dunton from the Animal Behaviour Laboratory. The Institute for Research in Animal Behavior"--Film credits. Portrays research by R.L. Penney and J.T. Emlen into Adelie penguins and their migration across Antarctica; also depicts Institute for Research in Animal Behavior penguin research facility at the Bronx Zoo. A sound version of Adelie Penguin Navigation is tiled Adelie Penguins of the Antarctic.