Film List (nos. 98-194)
Northwest
Coast Indians [videorecording.]
Publisher New York : American Museum
of Natural History : CBS, 1955; 1 videocassette (30 min.) : sound,
b&w ; 3/4 in. The story of the Northwest Coast Indians and the
loss of their culture is the subject examined.
Film
Collection no. 98
Essence
of life [videorecording.]
Publisher New York : American Museum
of Natural History : CBS, 1955; 1 videocassette (30 min.) : sound,
b&w ; 3/4 in. William D. Clarke, AMNH curator of invertebrates,
reviews the nature and range of life on earth, illustrating how
all normal forms of life have five basic properties: responsiveness,
the ability to reproduce, growth, metabolism, and movement.
Film
Collection no. 99
African
safari [videorecording.]
Publisher New York : American Museum
of Natural History : CBS, 1955; 1 videocassette (30 min.) : sound,
b&w ; 3/4 in. Harold E. Anthony, chairman and curator of the
museum's Department of Mammals, and Charles Collingwood, narrator,
take television viewers on a safari to Africa in this broadcast.
Anthony, a noted animal collector, stresses the importance of safari
techniques that bring back live animals for scientific study.
Film
Collection no. 100
Mohammedanism
[videorecording.]
Publisher New York : American Museum of Natural History :
CBS, 1955; 1 videocassette (30 min.) : sound, b&w ; 3/4 in.
Walter Ashlin Fairservis, AMNH anthropologist, examines Mohammedanism.
The first in a three-part series on Oriental religions, this program
traces the beginnings of Mohammedanism to about 600 A.D., when Mohammed
preached.
Film
Collection no. 101
Silkworms
; Constellations [videorecording.]
Publisher New York : American Museum
of Natural History : CBS, 1955; 1 videocassette (30 min.) : sound,
b&w ; 3/4 in. SEGMENT 1: Silkworms. The complete cycle of the
silkworm, from birth to death, is discussed by Mont Adelbert Cazier,
chairman of the AMNH Department of Insects and Spiders, who also
narrates the Italian documentary that shows the silk-spinning process.
SEGMENT 2: Constellations. Catharine E. Barry, assistant astronomer
at the American MuseumHayden Planetarium, presents the second segment,
which is primarily geared for young children. She speaks about the
mythology of the heavens, recounting the history of the constellation
Orion, the Japanese tales of the stars Alta and Vegair, and the
Indian legend of the Corona Borealis.
Film
Collection no. 102
Egypt
; Fish genetics ; Geology of the far north [videorecording.]
Publisher New York : American Museum
of Natural History : CBS, 1955; 1 videocassette (30 min.) : sound,
b&w ; 3/4 in. SEGMENT 1: Egypt. In a remote broadcast from the
Brooklyn Museum, the first segment attempts to reconstruct life
in Egypt during the time of the Pharoahs, as seen through Egyptian
art. SEGMENT 2: Fish Genetics. The second segment is concerned with
fish genetic experiments performed in conjunction with the American
Cancer Society to determine if there is a hereditary factor in cancer.
SEGMENT 3: Geology of the Far North. Father Bernard Hubbard, dean
of science at the University of Santa Clara, California, discusses
his adventures in Alaska as the glacier priest for the past 27 years.
Film
Collection no. 103
Explorations
for science in South America [videorecording.]
Publisher New York : American Museum
of Natural History : CBS, 1955; 1 videocassette (30 min.) : sound,
b&w ; 3/4 in. Ross Allen, owner of the Ross Allen Reptile Farm
in Silver Springs, Florida, discusses the role of adventurers and
explorers in the cause of science.
Film
Collection no. 104
Hinduism
[videorecording.]
Publisher New York : American Museum of Natural History :
CBS, 1955; 1 videocassette (30 min.) : sound, b&w ; 3/4 in.
The second segment in a three-part series on religion discusses
Hinduism. The three stages of life of the average Hindu are examined:
confirmation and preparation; discharge obligations; and in old
age renouncing life and attempting to reach Brahman and rebirth.
Film
Collection no. 105
New
Mexican descendants of conquistadores [videorecording.]
Publisher New York : American Museum
of Natural History : CBS, 1955; 1 videocassette (30 min.) : sound,
b&w ; 3/4 in. This broadcast discusses the inhabitants of Truchas,
New Mexico, who were direct descendants of the Spanish conquerors
who opened the North American continent to colonization and development.
Film
Collection no. 106
After
hours at the Museum ; Red deer [videorecording.]
Publisher New York : American Museum
of Natural History : CBS, 1955; 1 videocassette (30 min.) : sound,
b&w ; 3/4 in. SEGMENT 1: After Hours at the Museum. The first
segment is a previously shown short film entitled After Hours at
the Museum. The previous showing was on May 16, 1954. SEGMENT 2:
Red Deer. Lee Crandall, curator emeritus for the Department of Birds,
New York Zoological Society, is the guest at a remote broadcast
from the Bronx Zoo (i.e. New York Zoological Park). The subject
of the program is the differences between the lives of red deer
in captivity and in the wild.
Film
Collection no. 107
Quetzalcoatl
[videorecording.]
Publisher New York : American Museum
of Natural History : CBS, 1955; 1 videocassette (30 min.) : sound,
b&w ; 3/4 in. Broadcast from the museum's Hall of Mexico and
Central America, the program presents an in-depth examination of
the influence Quetzalcoatl (Serpent God of the Aztecs) had on four
major cultures.
Film
Collection no. 108
Adventure
[videorecording.]
Publisher New York : American Museum of Natural History :
CBS, 1955; 1 videocassette (30 min.) : sound, b&w ; 3/4 in.
The topic of discussion for this broadcast is the concept of adventure.
After a brief examination of the various meanings of the word, three
feature films are shown to illustrate different types of adventure.
Film
Collection no. 109
Family
of man [videorecording.]
Publisher New York : American Museum
of Natural History : CBS, 1955; 1 videocassette (30 min.) : sound,
b&w ; 3/4 in. The "Family of Man" exhibition of photographs
at the Museum of Modern Art is discussed by Edward Steichen, noted
photographer and curator at the Museum of Modern Art, and guests
Eleanor Roosevelt, Carl Sandburg, and Harry L. Shapiro, AMNH Department
of Anthropology.
Film
Collection no. 110
Bees
[videorecording.]
Publisher New York : American Museum
of Natural History : CBS, 1955; 1 videocassette (30 min.) : sound,
b&w ; 3/4 in. Charles Collingwood examines the world of bees
in this segment. Along with live bees brought into the studio, Collingwood
walks the viewers through a beehive.
Film
Collection no. 111
Mountain
climbing with native guides [videorecording.]
Publisher New York : American Museum
of Natural History : CBS, 1955; 1 videocassette (30 min.) : sound,
b&w ; 3/4 in. A discussion of the need for native guides in
mountain climbing expeditions is the subject of this broadcast.
Film
Collection no. 112
Family
of man [videorecording.]
Publisher New York : American Museum
of Natural History : CBS, 1955; 1 videocassette (30 min.) : sound,
b&w ; 3/4 in. This broadcast on the "Family of Man"
exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art was originally shown on June
19, 1955. The show won an award at the Venice Film Festival and
was exhibited at the Edinburgh Film Festival. It is repeated here
in its entirety.
Film
Collection no. 113
Oil
digging in Purcell, Oklahoma [videorecording.]
Publisher New York : American Museum
of Natural History : CBS, 1955; 1 videocassette (30 min.) : sound,
b&w ; 3/4 in. Robert Northshield, producer of the Adventure
series, joins engineers of the Carter Oil Company (a subsidiary
of Standard Oil of New Jersey) in staking out a claim-site and starting
drilling in Purcell, Oklahoma.
Film
Collection no. 114
Planets
; Oil well #2 [videorecording.]
Publisher New York : American Museum of Natural History :
CBS, 1955; 1 videocassette (30 min.) : sound, b&w ; 3/4 in.
SEGMENT 1: Planets. Joseph M. Chamberlain, chief astronomer at the
AMNH-Hayden Planetarium, is interviewed about projected space travel
and man's concept of the universe. A discussion follows, about what
planets really look like and whether any of them are capable of
supporting life. SEGMENT 2: Oil Well #2. At the end of the program,
a progress report is given on the oil well construction at Purcell,
Oklahoma. Robert Northshield, in the field, shows films of the erection
of the derrick that week.
Film
Collection no. 115
Way
of the Navajo [videorecording.]
Publisher New York : American Museum
of Natural History : CBS, 1955; 1 videocassette (30 min.) : sound,
b&w ; 3/4 in. The Way of the Navajo, first broadcast September
26, 1954, is shown again on this date after winning Adventure the
George Foster Peabody Award. This film was also selected to be shown
at the International Film Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Film
Collection no. 116
The
body ; Oil well #3 [videorecording.]
Publisher New York : American Museum
of Natural History : CBS, 1955; 1 videocassette (30 min.) : sound,
b&w ; 3/4 in. SEGMENT 1: The Body. The first segment of this
broadcast illustrates how the body works by means of a large machine
full of tracks and a small train moving over the human body to portray
various systems. SEGMENT 2: Oil Well #3. Robert Northshield once
again discusses the latest progress on the Adventure oil well in
Purcell, Oklahoma.
Film
Collection no. 117
Sea
of darkness ; Oil well #4 [videorecording.]
Publisher New York : American Museum
of Natural History : CBS, 1955; 1 videocassette (30 min.) : sound,
b&w ; 3/4 in. SEGMENT 1: Albert E. Parr, Director of the AMNH
and a marine biologist, is interviewed by Charles Collingwood on
the subject of the Atlantic Ocean. The discussion includes an analysis
of the Atlantic from Labrador to Puerto Rico, and legends about
the ocean. SEGMENT 2: Oil Well #4. This segment presents an update
on the Adventure oil well in Purcell, Oklahoma. Robert Northshield
discusses the progress of the drilling.
Film
Collection no. 118
Christmas
around the world ; Oil well #5 [videorecording.]
Publisher New York : American Museum
of Natural History : CBS, 1955; 1 videocassette (30 min.) : sound,
b&w ; 3/4 in. SEGMENT 1: Christmas Around the World. In a remote
broadcast from a Benedictine convent in Bethlehem, Connecticut,
a valuable collection of miniature creche figures, fifteenth century
Italian wood carvings are seen. SEGMENT 2: Oil Well #5. The second
segment is the fifth and last report on the oil well in Purcell,
Oklahoma. Robert Northshield is seen celebrating under a gushing
oil well.
Film
Collection no. 119
Seals
and porpoises [videorecording.]
Publisher New York : American Museum
of Natural History : CBS, 1956; 1 videocassette (30 min.) : sound,
b&w ; 3/4 in. Another program in a series on "The Waters
of the World," this remote broadcast discusses seals, porpoises,
and dolphins from the Great Aquarium and Seal Pond at Marineland
in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. Ken Norris, curator of Marineland,
is interviewed by Charles Collingwood.
Film
Collection no. 120
Belgian
Congo's Hamba tribe [videorecording.]
Publisher New York : American Museum
of Natural History : CBS, 1956; 1 videocassette (30 min.) : sound,
b&w ; 3/4 in. The noted anthropologist Luc de Heusch recorded
various rites of the Hamba tribe of the Belgian Congo (now Zaire)
for this program. Celebration of the Hamba, the English title of
de Heusch's film, documents the ritual of the "leopardmen,"
the initiation of young men into the ranks of the warriors, some
festivals, and the ceremony of a native divorce.
Film
Collection no. 121
Gorillas
and apes [videorecording.]
Publisher New York : American Museum
of Natural History : CBS, 1956; 1 videocassette (30 min.) : sound,
b&w ; 3/4 in. The program on gorillas and other apes begins
with a film entitled Gorilla Bill, which is about Bill Said's methods
of capturing a gorilla (shown previously on March 27, 1955). After
this film material is presented, a remote broadcast from the Bronx
Zoo (i.e. New York Zoological Park) features Charles Collingwood
interviewing Richard Mandel, curator of mammals, about the lives
of gorillas and other apes in the wild and in captivity.
Film
Collection no. 122
Voodoo
[videorecording.]
Publisher New York : American Museum
of Natural History : CBS, 1956; 1 videocassette (30 min.) : sound,
b&w ; 3/4 in. The origin and history of voodoo is the topic
of discussion for this broadcast. Illustrated through a performance
by the Haitian dancer Jean Lon Destine and his dance group with
drums and singing dancers, the discussion explores the various meanings
of voodoo as a religion and ritual.
Film
Collection no. 123
Life
of the penguin [videorecording.]
Publisher New York : American Museum
of Natural History : CBS, 1956; 1 videocassette (30 min.) : sound,
b&w ; 3/4 in. Broadcasting from the penguin section of the Bronx
Zoo (i.e. New York Zoological Park), Charles Collingwood discusses
penguins with William J. L. Sladen of the Falkland Islands Dependencies
Survey Department. Dean Amadon, AMNH ornithologist, was a consultant
for the program.
Film
Collection no. 124
Headhunters
of South America [videorecording.]
Publisher New York : American Museum
of Natural History : CBS, 1956; 1 videocassette (30 min.) : sound,
b&w ; 3/4 in. Edward Moffatt Weyer, editor of Natural History
magazine and an anthropologist, and Harry Tschopik, AMNH ethnologist,
are guest anthropologists on this broadcast about two groups of
Indians. The Chavante (i.e. Shavante) and Jivaro Indians, who live
in the Amazon region of South America, have been the subject of
some scrutiny following the recent massacre of five American missionaries
by the Auca Indians in Ecuador.
Film
Collection no. 125
Buddhism
[videorecording.]
Publisher New York : American Museum
of Natural History : CBS, 1956; 1 videocassette (30 min.) : sound,
b&w ; 3/4 in. The setting for this broadcast is a Buddhist temple
in Farmingdale, New Jersey, in a community where 160 Tibetan political
and religious refugees have settled. Buddhist rituals, customs,
and special New Year's day celebrations are observed as the community
celebrates its freedom.
Film
Collection no. 126
Catalina
under the sea [videorecording.]
Publisher New York : American Museum
of Natural History : CBS, 1956; 1 videocassette (30 min.) : sound,
b&w ; 3/4 in. In a live underwater broadcast, the first ever
produced, Charles Collingwood puts on his diving suit and dives
with Ken Norris, oceanographer at Marineland in Rancho Palos Verdes,
California. They discuss plants, such as a kelp forest, and much
of the examination is centered on the type of underwater photographic
equipment used in this unique broadcast.
Film
Collection no. 127
Angotee
[videorecording] : contrast between American and Eskimo boys.
Publisher New York : American Museum
of Natural History : CBS, 1956; 1 videocassette (30 min.) : sound,
b&w ; 3/4 in. The program contrasts an Eskimo boy, Angotee,
with an American boy, his counterpart of the same age.
Film
Collection no. 128
Snakes
and snake cults [videorecording.]
Publisher New York : American Museum
of Natural History : CBS, 1956; 1 videocassette (30 min.) : sound,
b&w ; 3/4 in. Snake cults are the subject of this program which
was a live remote broadcast from Bill Haas's serpentarium in Kendall,
Florida.
Film
Collection no. 129
Locusts
[videorecording.]
Publisher New York : American Museum
of Natural History : CBS, 1956; 1 videocassette (30 min.) : sound,
b&w ; 3/4 in. John Schmidt, a Rutgers University entomologist,
explains the latest discoveries in protection from locust plagues.
Film
Collection no. 130
Hook
[videorecording] : a hawk's life.
Publisher New York : American Museum
of Natural History : CBS, 1956; 1 videocassette (30 min.) : sound,
b&w ; 3/4 in. Ernest Thomas Gilliard, an ornithologist at the
AMNH, is introduced on this broadcast as a guest expert on the life
cycle of the hawk.
Film
Collection no. 131
Alexander
the Great [videorecording.]
Publisher New York : American Museum
of Natural History : CBS, 1956; 1 videocassette (30 min.) : sound,
b&w ; 3/4 in. The 1956 Hollywood production of Alexander the
Great provides the impetus for this broadcast, which compares the
historical accuracy of the movie with actual relics from the fourth
century B.C., in the collections of the AMNH.
Film
Collection no. 132
Big
cats [videorecording.]
Publisher New York : American Museum
of Natural History : CBS, 1956; 1 videocassette (30 min.) : sound,
b&w ; 3/4 in. Big Cats is the title of this program broadcast
live from the Bronx Zoo (i.e. New York Zoological Park). Richard
Mandel, the mammal curator at the zoo, is the guest. The program
shows viewers how tigers, jaguars and leopards live in captivity.
Film
Collection no. 133
Imprinting
period [videorecording.]
Publisher New York : American Museum
of Natural History : CBS, 1956; 1 videocassette (30 min.) : sound,
b&w ; 3/4 in. Scientific experimentation with the imprinting
period, the phase of an animal's life when its mind is most open
to stimuli, is the topic of discussion.
Film
Collection no. 134
Evolution
of the horse [videorecording.]
Publisher New York : American Museum
of Natural History : CBS, 1956; 1 videocassette (30 min.) : sound,
b&w ; 3/4 in. This broadcast from the Aqueduct Racetrack features
horse trainer Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons, trainer of the thoroughbred
Nashua. The discussion focuses on the characteristics of a fine
horse and on the evolution of the horse.
Film
Collection no. 135
Deafness
[videorecording.]
Publisher New York : American Museum
of Natural History : CBS, 1956; 1 videocassette (30 min.) : sound,
b&w ; 3/4 in. Charles Collingwood explores the world of deafness
in this program. In conjunction with a trained audiologist from
the New York Lexington School for the Deaf, an electrical set-up
enables Collingwood's voice to be filtered out and demonstrates
the tones that are lost when deafness begins.
Film
Collection no. 136
Shintoism
and Japanese culture [videorecording.]
Publisher New York : American Museum
of Natural History : CBS, 1956; 1 videocassette (30 min.) : sound,
b&w ; 3/4 in. Broadcast live from the Henry E. Huntington Museum
Library and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California, the program
examines Japanese religion and culture.
Film
Collection no. 137
Snake
cults [videorecording.]
Publisher New York : American Museum
of Natural History : CBS, 1956; 1 videocassette (30 min.) : sound,
b&w ; 3/4 in. This program is a repeat of the broadcast from
March 4, 1956 on snake cults and worship of snakes.
Film
Collection no. 138
Pompeii
[videorecording.]
Publisher New York : American Museum of Natural History :
CBS, 1956; 1 videocassette (30 min.) : sound, b&w ; 3/4 in.
Walter Ashlin Fairservis, AMNH archaeologist, served as consultant
for this broadcast on Pompeii, the ancient Roman city buried for
seventeen centuries by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. The entire
city of Pompeii is reproduced for this program in a realistic model.
Film
Collection no. 139
African
villages and music [videorecording.]
Publisher New York : American Museum
of Natural History : CBS, 1956; 1 videocassette (30 min.) : sound,
b&w ; 3/4 in. This segment, hosted by Charles Collingwood, discusses
the use of music in African villages, especially music samples of
the Babembe (i.e. Bembe) found in the Middle Congo of French Equatorial
Africa (now Congo).
Film
Collection no. 140
Age
of dinosaurs [videorecording.]
Publisher New York : American Museum
of Natural History : CBS, 1956; 1 videocassette (30 min.) : sound,
b&w ; 3/4 in. Edwin Harris Colbert, paleontologist at the AMNH,
joins narrator Charles Collingwood for this broadcast on the subject
of dinosaurs.
Film
Collection no. 141
The
Bayeux tapestry [videorecording.]
Publisher New York : American Museum
of Natural History : CBS, 1956; 1 videocassette (30 min.) : sound,
b&w ; 3/4 in. The Bayeaux Tapestry is the subject of this broadcast
which traces the history of Hastings back to the Norman victory
over the Anglo-Saxons in 1066 A.D. in what is believed to be the
formation of the English-speaking people.
Film
Collection no. 142
Seabirds'
struggle for survival [videorecording.]
Publisher New York : American Museum
of Natural History : CBS, 1956; 1 videocassette (30 min.) : sound,
b&w ; 3/4 in. Robert Cushman Murphy, AMNH ornithologist, is
a guest on this program which examines the subject of seabirds struggling
for survival.
Film
Collection no. 143
The
golden age of whaling [videorecording.]
Publisher New York : American Museum
of Natural History : CBS, 1956; 1 videocassette (30 min.) : sound,
b&w ; 3/4 in. The last voyage of the Charles Morgan, an old
whaling ship out of Mystic, Connecticut, is the topic of discussion
for the program.
Film
Collection no. 144
End: CBS/AMNH Adventure
Series (1953-1956)
Film Collection nos. 25-144
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Central
African Expedition [videorecording.] *
Publisher New York : American Museum of Natural
History, 1947-1948; 1 videocassette (500 min.) : silent, color;
3/4 in. Filmed during AMNH Central African Expedition, 1948. The
film material taken on the AMNH Central African Expedition, 1947-1948,
is unedited, raw footage.
Film
Collection no. 145 (see also Film
Collection no. 3 )
Central Asiatic
Expeditions Films (1921-1930): Film Collection nos. 146-151
Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn, AMNH President (1908-1933) and
noted paleontologist, believed that central Asia was the birthplace
of man. When the young curator of mammals, Roy Chapman Andrews,
started talking about exploring central Asia he was encouraged by
Osborn. Andrews personally raised funds and organized an expedition
that he called the Third Asiatic Expedition (TAE), 1921-1930, since
he had already reconnoitered Mongolia in 1919, and in 1916-1917
the AMNH had completed the First Zoological Expedition. Eventually
the entire series of expeditions became known as the Central Asiatic
Expeditions.
Asia magazine, co-sponsor of the TAE, hired cinematographer James
Barnes Shackelford, an expert in the use of the Akeley camera (a
special camera equipped with a gyro head, a long-focus lens, and
a coupled viewfinder, which could be set up in less than a minute
and have its film changed in thirty seconds) to film the 1922, 1925,
and 1928 expeditions. The resulting films and photographs are some
of the most comprehensive and most professional, making it the best-documented
expedition in the collection. In the 1930s the raw footage was edited
into short thematic films titled and captioned for use in lectures.
No comprehensive visual record exists. The TAE received front-page
attention as it traveled throughout China and Mongolia. Although
the expedition failed to find evidence that Central Asia was the
birthplace of man, it is remembered for the discovery of dinosaur
eggs in the Gobe Desert, thus proving that dinosaurs were reptiles
not mammals.
The
Central Asiatic Expeditions [videorecording] : fauna. *
Publisher New York : American Museum of Natural
History 1921-1930; 1 videocassette (17 min.) : silent, b&w ;
3/4 in. Filmed during the AMNH Third Asiatic Expedition to China
and Mongolia, 1921-1930. The expedition collected zoological specimens
throughout Mongolia, but the main collecting was done in the Gobi
Desert. This film shows some of the animals that were collected
for scientific purposes, as well as those kept as pets.
Film
Collection no. 146
Central
Asiatic Expeditions [videorecording] : fossils and artifacts.
*
Publisher New York : American Museum of Natural
History, 1925; 1 videocassette (19 min.) : silent, b&w ; 3/4
in. Filmed during the AMNH Third Asiatic Expedition to China and
Mongolia, 1921-1930. The film records the paleontological finds
of the expedition.
Film
Collection no. 147
Central
Asiatic Expeditions [videorecording] : maps, staff and transportation.
*
Publisher New York : American Museum of Natural
History, 1922-1928; 1 videocassette (29 min.) : silent, b&w
; 3/4 in. Filmed during the AMNH Third Asiatic Expedition to China
and Mongolia, 1921-1930. The film opens with animated maps tracing
the routes of the expeditions.
Film
Collection no. 148
The
Central Asiatic Expeditions [videorecording] : Mongols.
*
Publisher New York : American Museum of Natural
History, 1922-1925; 1 videocassette (29 min.) : silent, b&w
; 3/4 in. China and Mongolia, 1921-1930. The first sequence concentrates
on daily life in a Mongol camp near Tsagan Nor (or White Lake).
Film
Collection no. 149
The
Central Asiatic Expeditions [videorecording] : Peking. *
Publisher New York : American Museum of Natural
History, 1922-1928; 1 videocassette (7 min.) : silent, b&w ;
3/4 in. Filmed during the AMNH Third Asiatic Expedition to China
and Mongolia, 1921-1930. Film brought from the U.S. was intended
for recording the expedition, but some precious film was used to
photograph Peking (now Beijing), the site of the expedition's headquarters.
Film
Collection no. 150
Frontiers
of a forbidden land [videorecording.]
Publisher New York : American Museum
of Natural History, 1916-1917; 1 videocassette (36 min.) : silent,
b&w ; 3/4 in. Filmed during the AMNH First Asiatic Zoological
Expedition to Yunnan and Fukien, China, 1916-1917. This is the record
of the AMNH First Asiatic Zoological Expedition to eastern and southwestern
China (Fukien and Yunnan provinces), the purpose of which was to
collect zoological specimens and visual ethnographic records.
Film
Collection no. 151
End: Central Asiatic Expeditions
Films (1921-1930)
Film Collection nos. 146-151
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Children
of Africa [videorecording.] *
Publisher New York : American Museum of Natural
History, 1937; 1 videocassette (10 min.) : silent, b&w ; 3/4
in. Filmed during the AMNH Martin Johnson African Expedition, 1924-1928.
Children of Africa is comprised of outtakes from a Martin and Osa
Johnson film made during the AMNH Martin Johnson African Expeditions,
1924-1928.
Film
Collection no. 152
Children
of Asia [videorecording.] *
Publisher New York : American Museum of Natural
History, 1937; 1 videocassette (12 min.) : silent, b&w ; 3/4
in. Edited from footage taken during the AMNH Faunthorpe-Vernay
Indian Expedition to India, Nepal, and Burma, 1922-1923, the AMNH
First Asiatic Zoological Expedition to Yunnan, China, 1916-1917,
and the AMNH Third Asiatic Expedition to China and Mongolia, 1921-1930.
Film
Collection no. 153
Children
of Mexico [videorecording.] *
Publisher New York : American Museum of Natural
History, 1940; 1 videocassette (11 min.) : silent, b&w ; 3/4
in. Filmed during the AMNH Educational Expedition to Mexico, 1940.
Grace Fisher Ramsey of the AMNH Department of Education made a series
of short films in 1940, during the Educational Expedition to Mexico.
This particular film is an introduction to the children of Mexico.
Film
Collection no. 154
The
Chisena of Mozambique [videorecording.] *
Publisher New York : American Museum of Natural
History, 1960; 1 videocassette (65 min.) : sound, color; 3/4 in.
The film begins with narration and maps depicting the early exploration
of Mozambique and dwelling particularly on the arrival of the Portuguese.
Film
Collection no. 155
Congo
[videorecording.]
Publisher New York : American Museum
of Natural History, 1940; 1 videocassette (5 min.) : sound, b&w
; 3/4 in. This footage is comprised of outtakes of the Warner Brothers
feature film The Congo but there is no information on it in the
Warners' archives.
Film
Collection no. 156
The
Congo Peacock Expedition [videorecording.] *
Publisher New York : American Museum of Natural
History, 1937; 1 videocassette (34 min.) : silent, color; 3/4 in.
Filmed during the AMNH Congo Peacock Expedition to Zaire, 1937.
Film
Collection no. 157
Craftsmen
of Mexico [videorecording.] *
Publisher New York : American Museum of Natural
History, 1940; 1 videocassette (16 min.) : silent, color; 3/4 in.
Filmed during the AMNH Educational Expedition to Mexico, 1940. This
film by Grace Fisher Ramsey, associate curator of the AMNH Department
of Education, opens in color with images of Otomi women near Popocatapetl
making twine from maguey fibers; they perform this task while walking
along the road.
Film
Collection no. 158
Templeton Crocker
Collection (1931-1935): Film Collection nos. 159-161
Charles Templeton Crocker (1885-1948) was born in San Francisco
to a family renowned for its contribution to the first transcontinental
railroad, but exploration rather than the Southern Pacific Railroad
Company fired his imagination and many museums profited by his sense
of adventure and generosity. He led several research expeditions
to the South Pacific in the 1930s, two of them for the AMNH. The
expeditions traveled on board his beautiful yacht, the Zaca. In
1933, Harper Brothers published his book, The Cruise of the Zaca.
People and Dances of Oceania is the film record of this trip.
People
and dances of Oceania [videorecording.] *
Publisher New York : American Museum of Natural
History, 1931-1933; 1 videocassette (37 min.) : silent, b&w
; 3/4 in. Partly filmed during the Templeton Crocker Expedition
to the Solomon Islands, 1933.
Film
Collection no. 159
The
scientific expedition to the South Pacific in the yacht Zaca [videorecording.]
*
Publisher New York : American Museum of Natural
History, 1934-1935; 1 videocassette (29 min.) : silent, b&w
; 3/4 in. Filmed during the AMNH Templeton Crocker Pacific Expedition,
1934-1935. The film offers little more than general documentation
of the expedition's activities and travels.
Film
Collection no. 160
The
Templeton Crocker Expedition [videorecording.] *
Publisher New York : American Museum of Natural
History, 1933; 1 videocassette (110 min.) : silent, b&w ; 3/4
in. Filmed during the Templeton Crocker Expedition to the Solomon
Islands, 1933. The objective of the Templeton Crocker Expedition,
led by Crocker, was to conduct a preliminary medical, ethnological
and natural history survey of the Solomon Islands. This film consists
predominantly of ethnographic footage depicting the native clothing,
trade, rituals and everyday activities on the various islands.
Film
Collection no. 161
End: Templeton Crocker
Collection (1931-1935)
Film Collection nos. 159-161
* * * * * * * * * *
Crossroads
of the deep [videorecording.] *
Publisher New York : American Museum of Natural History,
1952; 1 videocassette (22 min.) : sound, color; 3/4 in. This film
records a big game fishing trip in the converging waters of the
mineral-rich Ecuadorian and Humboldt currents off the coast of Peru.
Film
Collection no. 162
C. Suydam Cutting
Collection (1926-1938): Film Collection nos. 163-167
Charles Suydam Cutting is most celebrated as the first westerner
to enter the forbidden city of Lhasa in Tibet. After years of negotiations
and presents to the Dalai Lama, his perseverance was rewarded by
an invitation to the holy city.
Educated as an engineer he abandoned his profession for adventure
and exploration. Cutting’s special interest in ethnology is reflected
in his expedition films. He collected for the Field Museum of Natural
History, the Bombay Natural History Society, botanical gardens in
the United States and England, and the AMNH. He was a member of
the royal Geographical Society and the Royal Central Asian Society,
and a trustee of both the AMNH and the New York Zoological Society.
Cutting wrote about his expeditions and friends, including Kermit
and Theodore Roosevelt Jr., in his book, The Fire Ox and Other
Years. The year of the fire ox, according to the Chinese lunar
calendar is 1937, when Cutting made his return visit to the forbidden
cities of Tibet with his wife, Helen McMahon Cutting. He was a national
champion in court tennis, an avocation he took as seriously as exploration.
Abyssinia
[videorecording.]
Publisher New York : American Museum
of Natural History, 1926-1927; 1 videocassette (69 min.) : silent,
b&w ; 3/4 in. Filmed during the Field Museum-Chicago Daily News
Abyssinian Expedition, 1926-1927.
Film
Collection no. 163
China
and Tibet [videorecording.] *
Publisher New York : American Museum of Natural
History, 1929; 1 videocassette (15 min.) : silent, b&w ; 3/4
in. Filmed during a Field Museum of Natural History expedition to
China, Tibet, and Vietnam, 1929. The film is primarily a record
of the people, many of whom are not identified, they encountered
through the Szechwan Province and in Tibet.
Film
Collection no. 164
Nyimsao
and Kheseto [videorecording] : a tale of the Naga Hills.
*
Publisher New York : American Museum of Natural
History, 1930; 1 videocassette (78 min.) : silent, b&w ; 3/4
in. Charles Suydam Cutting made this film while traveling through
the Naga Hills of Assam in northeast India with a punitive expedition
conducted by the British Naga district commissioner to curtail headhunting.
Ethnographic footage of the Naga peoples is overlaid on a light
fictional story about two men, Nyimsao and Kheseto.
Film
Collection no. 165
To
Lhasa and Shigatse [videorecording.] *
Publisher New York : American Museum of Natural
History, 1935; 1 videocassette (73 min.) : silent, b&w ; 3/4
in. Filmed during the Vernay-Cutting Expedition to Tibet, 1935.
The Vernay-Cutting expedition to Tibet was co-led by Charles Suydam
Cutting and Arthur Stannard Vernay, another AMNH trustee. Its purpose
was to collect ethnological objects for the AMNH and botanical specimens
for the Kew Gardens in England.
Film
Collection no. 166
The
Vernay-Cutting Expedition to Burma [videorecording.]
Publisher New York : American Museum
of Natural History, 1938; 1 videocassette (25 min.) : silent, color;
3/4 in. Filmed during the Vernay-Cutting Expedition to Burma, 1938.
The Vernay-Cutting Expedition to Burma was organized for the purpose
of collecting zoological and botanical specimens for the AMNH, the
New York Botanical Garden, the Kensington Museum of London (probably
the British Museum of Natural History), Kew Gardens, and the Bombay
Natural History Society.
Film
Collection no. 167
End: C. Suydam Cutting
Collection (1926-1938)
Film Collection nos. 163-167
* * * * * * * * * *
Danses
de Dogons, de Sanga, et de Bandiagara [videorecording.]
Publisher New York : American Museum
of Natural History, [192- ]1930; 1 videocassette (4 min.) : silent,
b&w ; 3/4 in. Given to the museum by the estate of Anne Morgan,
J. P. Morgan's youngest child, this is probably one of several French
Government films she owned, as she had worked extensively with the
French Government during World War I. The dances of the Dogon escarpments
of Sanga and Bandiagara in Mali are the focus of this film.
Film
Collection no. 168
Danses
des Cambodgiennes [videorecording.]
Publisher New York : American Museum
of Natural History, 1930?; 1 videocassette (6 min.) : silent, b&w
; 3/4 in. This film was given to the AMNH by the estate of Anne
Morgan, J. P. Morgan's youngest child. This is probably one of several
French Government films which she owned. In this film, the Royal
Cambodian Ballet performs a traditional dance on an elaborate covered
patio.
Film
Collection no. 169
The
Day Roraima Expedition [videorecording.] *
Publisher New York : American Museum of Natural
History, 1927; 1 videocassette (67 min.) : silent, b&w ; 3/4
in. Filmed during the AMNH Day Roraima Expedition to Venezuela,
Brazil and Guyana, 1927. George Henry Hamilton Tate, AMNH associate
in mammalogy, his brother Geoffrey Tate, and T. Donald Carter, AMNH
assistant curator of mammalogy, headed this expedition, the object
of which was to bring a list of the region's flora and fauna as
near to completion as possible.
Film
Collection no. 170
A
day with John Burroughs [videorecording.]
Publisher New York : American Museum
of Natural History, 1919; 1 videocassette (9 min.) : silent, color;
3/4 in. John Burroughs (1837-1921), author and naturalist, is filmed
going about his daily routine at his home, Woodchuck Lodge, in the
Catskill Mountains. This film is unique for the time as it was filmed
in color; it is the earliest color film in the collection.
Film
Collection no. 171
---For more information about John Burroughs, see the site for
the John
Burroughs Association.
Dead
birds [videorecording.]
Publisher New York : American Museum
of Natural History, 1962; 1 videocassette (84 min.) : sound, color;
3/4 in. Filmed during the Harvard-Peabody New Guinea Expedition
to the Baliem Valley of Dutch New Guinea (now Irian Jaya), 1961.
This film chronicles the two seasons the expedition spent with the
Dugum Dani (i.e. Dani) in the Kurelu area of the Baliem Valley,
Dutch New Guinea (now Irian Jaya, Indonesia).
Film
Collection no. 172
Digging
fossils in South Dakota [videorecording.] *
Publisher New York : American Museum of Natural
History, 1941; 1 videocassette (6 min.) : silent, color; 3/4 in.
Filmed during AMNH excavations in the Big Badlands of South Dakota,
1941. This film made by Charles Coles, AMNH photographer, records
the paleontological work done in the Badlands of South Dakota by
AMNH paleontologists Edwin H. Colbert, Albert Thomson, and Walter
Granger.
Film
Collection no. 173
DNA
and living cells [videorecording.] *
Publisher New York : American Museum of Natural
History, 1964; 1 videocassette (7 min.) : silent, color; 3/4 in.
The first part of DNA and Living Cells discusses, through animated
modules, how DNA and RNA direct the synthesis of certain proteins
that are vital for proper cell function.
Film
Collection no. 174
Dogon
mask [videorecording.]
Publisher New York : American Museum
of Natural History, 1974?; 1 videocassette (15 min.) : sound, color;
3/4 in. This film is part of the travelling exhibition entitled
"Contemporary African Arts," which was mounted by the
Field Museum of Natural History of Chicago and shown at the AMNH
in 1974. A group of Dogons dance against the background formed by
the wattle-and-daub pueblo-style buildings of their village in Mali.
Film
Collection no. 175
W. Gurnee Dyer Collection
(1963-1973): Film Collection nos. 176-184
Walter Gurnee Dyer, vice-president of the AMNH from 1968 until
his death in 1974, was an investment banker with an avid interest
in education. The Dyer film collection, motivated by his desire
to educate, is a photographic record of Dyer’s travel experiences
in Africa, Central America and Asia, with his wife, Betty, who recorded
the local music heard in some of these films. During their travels,
the Dyers collected many artifacts of daily life. The films often
record how these items were used, and many of these objects are
now on display in AMNH’s Hall of Man in Africa.
Afrique
equatoriale [videorecording] : Tchad. *
Publisher New York : American Museum of Natural
History, 1963; 1 videocassette (35 min.) : silent, color; 3/4 in.
This film provides a general overview of the various peoples of
Chad.
Film
Collection no. 176
Afrique
noire [videorecording] : Senegal. *
Publisher New York : American Museum of Natural
History, 1964; 1 videocassette (16 min.) : silent, color; 3/4 in.
This film provides a general portrait of Senegalese life.
Film
Collection no. 177
Afrique
occidentale [videorecording] : Mali. *
Publisher New York : American Museum of Natural
History, 1964; 1 videocassette (12 min.) : silent, color; 3/4 in.
A broad panorama of various locations throughout Mali is offered
here, including San Sangha, Mopti, Tombouctou (Timbuktu), and the
Bani and Niger Rivers.
Film
Collection no. 178
Ethiopia
[videorecording.] *
Publisher New York : American Museum of Natural
History, 1971; 1 videocassette (61 min.) : sound, color; 3/4 in.
With the feel and flavor of a travelogue, this film touches briefly
on a variety of locations, people, and events throughout this East
African country. Places visited include Addis Ababa, the hot springs
of Awash, the Blue Nile Gorge, Tisisat Falls, Lake Tsana, Daga Island,
Dek Island, Gonder, Lalibela, and Aksum.
Film
Collection no. 179
Guatemala,
land of the Maya [videorecording.] *
Publisher New York : American Museum of Natural
History, 1970; 1 videocassette (45 min.) : sound, color; 3/4 in.
The informative narrative and lengthy, detailed scenes make this
travel film useful for research. The film surveys many aspects of
Guatemala.
Film
Collection no. 180
In
the shadow of the Ruwenzori and the Ituri forest [videorecording.]
*
[Dyer’s Congo-
note in book]
Publisher New York : American Museum of Natural
History, 1972; 1 videocassette (52 min.) : sound, color; 3/4 in.
While on vacation in Uganda and Zaire, Walter Gurnee and Betty Dyer
filmed their trip and made sound recordings of the people and places
they encountered. Their trip took them to Queen Elizabeth National
Park, Lake Kivu, the Semliki River, the Semliki flats and the Ituri
Forest.
Film
Collection no. 181
India
[videorecording] : Bombay to Cape Comorin. *
Publisher New York : American Museum of Natural
History, 1966; 1 videocassette (50 min.) : sound, color; 3/4 in.
The Dyers made this film while traveling through India. It opens
with footage of Bombay Harbor; the fishermen of the seacoast town
of Manori are then observed at work, and the town itself is explored
through street scenes and a shot of the Tomb of Rabia-ud-Daurani,
which closely resembles the Taj Mahal.
Film
Collection no. 182
A
little journey through Iran [videorecording.] *
Publisher New York : American Museum of Natural
History, 1971; 1 videocassette (34 min.) : sound, color; 3/4 in.
A Little Journey through Iran is a record of the Dyers' travels
through that country. Included in the film are magnificent shots
of the Tomb of Cyrus the Great at Pasargadae, and the tombs of the
other Achaemeni kings, Darius I, Darius II and Xerxes, and the nearby
ruins of Persepolis.
Film
Collection no. 183
Travels
through the northern frontier district of Kenya [videorecording.]
*
Publisher New York : American Museum of Natural
History, 1973; 1 videocassette (49 min.) : sound, color; 3/4 in.
Here the Dyers provide us with brief portraits of the various tribes
and wildlife that inhabit the region on Kenya's northern border.
Film
Collection no. 184
End: W. Gurnee Dyer Collection
(1963-1973)
Film Collection nos. 176-184
* * * * * * * * * *
East
Africa [videorecording.] *
Publisher New York : American Museum of Natural
History, 1923?; 1 videocassette (14 min.) : silent, b&w ; 3/4
in. This film is comprised of bits and pieces that are probably
outtakes of Alfred J. Klein's Equatorial Africa: Roosevelt's Hunting
Grounds, made in 1923.
Film
Collection no. 185
The
Ellsworth Antarctic Expedition [videorecording.]
Publisher New York : American Museum
of Natural History, 1933-1934; 1 videocassette (93 min.) : silent,
b&w ; 3/4 in. Filmed during two Ellsworth Antarctic expeditions,
1933 and 1934. Lincoln Ellsworth, AMNH trustee, made two unsuccessful
attempts to cross Antarctica by plane in 1933 and 1934 before succeeding
finally in 1935. This footage, which unfortunately documents only
his first two attempts, is nonetheless valuable for its views of
the Antarctic landscape and the expedition itself, including Ellsworth's
ship, the Wyatt Earp, and his plane, the Polar Star.
Film
Collection no. 186
Fishermen
of Lake Patzcuaro [videorecording.] *
Publisher New York : American Museum of Natural
History, 1940; 1 videocassette (9 min.) : silent, color; 3/4 in.
Filmed during the AMNH Educational Expedition to Mexico, 1940. In
this film, made by Grace Fisher Ramsey of the Museum's Department
of Education, the Tarasco Indians weave nets by their homes, near
Lake Patzcuaro, Mexico.
Film
Collection no. 187
The
Gilliard Sepik Expedition [videorecording.] *
Publisher New York : American Museum of Natural
History, 1953-1954; 1 videocassette (57 min.) : sound, color; 3/4
in. Filmed during the AMNH-National Geographic Society Gilliard
Sepik Expedition to Papua New Guinea, 1953-1954. Ernest Thomas Gilliard,
AMNH ornithologist, and his wife Margaret went to Papua New Guinea
in 1953- 1954 to study the birds of paradise of the Sepik River
region and the headwaters in the valley between the Victor Emanuel
and Hindenburg Mountain ranges.
Film
Collection no. 188
Glimpses
of Hispaniola [videorecording.] *
Publisher New York : American Museum of Natural
History, 1929-1930; 1 videocassette (9 min.) : silent, b&w ;
3/4 in. Santo Domingo, 1929-1930. The Angelo Heilprin Expedition
to Santo Domingo was conducted under the auspices of the museum's
Department of Herpetology and Experimental Biology. Its purpose
was to collect and "fix" reptiles and amphibians in the
field.
Film
Collection no. 189
Greenland
musk oxen [videorecording.]
Publisher New York : American Museum
of Natural History, 1934; 1 videocassette (13 min.) : silent, b&w
; 3/4 in. This short film is all that remains of an expedition film
called North Iceland and Northeast Greenland made by John K. Howard,
an AMNH patron. In it is pictured the Isfjord, the Frand Joseph
fjord, the Nordenskjold glacier, icebergs, waterfalls at Geology
fjord, and of particular interest, the musk oxen at Eleonore Bay
and Ymer Island.
Film
Collection no. 190
High
Arctic [videorecording.]
Publisher New York : American Museum
of Natural History, 1962-1963; 1 videocassette (65 min.) : sound,
color; 3/4 in. This film begins in Ottawa at the headquarters of
the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. While there, a Mountie officer
convinces Lewis Cotlow, producer and director of this film, to make
a motion picture about the Eskimos of the high Arctic. The film
shows Cotlow and his film crew setting out on board an official
Mountie airplane named the Otter.
Film
Collection no. 191
Hopi
Indians of the Southwest [videorecording.] *
Publisher New York : American Museum of Natural
History, 1925; 1 videocassette (16 min.) : silent, b&w ; 3/4
in. The first part of this film is a study of weaving. Every action,
from the carding of wool, through spinning it on a spindle, mounting
yarn into warps, and weaving a sash using an upright loom are seen,
all being performed by a Hopi man. This is followed by a ceremony
leading up to a foot race by the priests as part of a maize celebration.
Film
Collection no. 192
How
life begins [videorecording.] *
Publisher New York : American Museum of Natural
History, 1916?; 1 videocassette (36 min.) : silent, color; 3/4 in.
George E. Stone, who had been an official U.S. Government photographer
in France during World War I, collaborated with J. A. Long, assistant
professor of embryology at the University of California, to make
this early sex education film in an attempt to help combat venereal
disease.
Film
Collection no. 193
Huaca
Prieta [videorecording.] *
Publisher New York : American Museum of Natural
History, 1946-1947; 1 videocassette (33 min.) : silent, color; 3/4
in. Filmed during the Institute of Andean Research Viru Valley Project
in Peru, 1946-1947. The Viru Valley Project was a series of archaeological
excavations in the Andes sponsored by the Institute for Andean Research.
Film
Collection no. 194
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Collection nos. 163-167
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Film Collection nos. 146-151
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Collection nos. 159-161
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Film Collection nos. 201-205
William J. Morden Collection (1922-1956)
Film Collection nos. 215-228
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Film Collection nos. 233-248
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