Object Type: Folder
In Folder: WCS Archives Collections
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.
1958
Film describing and promoting the courses at the Mweka College of African Wildlife Management in Tanganyika [Tanzania].
1964
"Photographed by James R. Simon"--Film credits. Footage of bears, including cub, and bison, including calf and herd running.
1952
Film showcasing a variety of baby animals being raised at the Bronx Zoo. Includes footage of Bronx Zoo's Gibbon Island and Animal Nursery.
1950
Film created to raise funds for "the zoo of tomorrow." Describes planned new exhibits at the Bronx Zoo, including an expansion of the African Plains, a South American exhibit, bear exhibits, World of Birds, the World of Darkness. Describes new plans for the New York Aquarium. Also references field work in Africa and South America. Includes dialogue from William Conway and Fairfield Osborn. "Produced for the Zoological Society by Evan J. Anton"--Film credits.
1962
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.
1988
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.
1938
