American Museum of Natural History
Organization
Found in 687 Collections and/or Records:
Headhunters of South America
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 125
Scope and Contents
Edward Moffat 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. Excerpts from Tschopik's film Men of the Montana, Weyer's film on the Chavante...
Dates:
1956
Edmund Heller diary
Collection
Identifier: Mss .H45
Scope and Contents
The diary is dated from October 9, 1917 to January 12, 1918, with undated addenda and address lists. It contains Heller’s personal reflections and daily activities on his solo return trip from the First Asiatic Zoological Expedition. He discusses the sites and architecture, the flora and weather, as well as the culture and his impressions of the people of each country. He writes of goods for sale, with a particular interest in lantern slides and fur-skinned merchandise. Many of his...
Dates:
October 9, 1917-January 12, 1918
Henry K. Svenson photographic slide collection, 1951.
Collection
Identifier: PSC 516
Abstract
Photographs of mangrove marshes in Big Pine Key, Florida, and coal mining facilities, equipment, and landscapes at Moss Mine, Dickenson Co., Virginia.
Dates:
1951
Hinduism
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 105
Scope and Contents
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. Shanta Rao, India's foremost classical dancer, performs ritual dances that are part of the religious Hindu observance. Filmed material includes Indians praying, making pottery, sewing, harvesting, and celebrating. G. L. Mehta, Indian...
Dates:
1955
History of life #4
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 64
Scope and Contents
The Rise of the Mammal is the fourth program in a special series on the Adventure series. George Gaylord Simpson, AMNH paleontologist and author of The Meaning of Evolution, and Edwin Harris Colbert, curator of fossil amphibians and reptiles at the museum, discuss the emergence of the mammal as a dominant form of life on earth. The program reviews the diversification found in the mammal class, as well as locomotive and adaptation characteristics. The evolution of the horse is examined...
Dates:
1954
History of life on earth #1
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 45
Scope and Contents
This is the first of a series of four broadcasts on the history of life on earth. George Gaylord Simpson, AMNH paleontologist, and Norman Dennis Newell of the Department of Fossil Invertebrates discuss the history of life and man's place in it. The program begins with electron microscope views of single-celled organisms and includes a discussion of fossils and a film entitled Birth of a Baby, produced by the Association of Medical Colleges and George Washington University. The Simplest...
Dates:
1953
History of the American Museum of Natural History : [microform] / by L.P. Gratacap.
Item
Identifier: Archives Microfilm #46
Hook : a hawk's life
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 131
Scope and Contents
Ernest Thomas Gilliard, an ornithologist at the AMNH, is introduced on this broadcast as a guest expert on the life cycle of the hawk. Featured in this broadcast is a film entitled Hook. A fictional biography of a hawk, the short story was written by Walter Van Tilburg Clark, author of The Ox-Bow Incident. The film traces the hawk's life cycle through the eyes of a hawk. The new type of motion picture animation used in this film created a series of optical effects by moving the camera over...
Dates:
1956
IBM Kiosk Project photographic slides, 1995-1997.
Collection
Identifier: PSC 528
Abstract
Photographs of various halls and exhibitions at the AMNH.
Dates:
1995-1997
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