American Museum of Natural History
Organization
Found in 687 Collections and/or Records:
Libbie Hyman photographic slide collection
Collection
Identifier: PSC 133
Scope and Contents
Original and copy slides of black and white prints. Includes images of Libbie Hyman's house and garden (October 1949) and the American Museum of Natural History original library originally taken in 1937. There are also portraits of Hazel Gay (1961) and Helen Gunz (1960).
Dates:
1949-1991
Lie detection ; Primitive art vs. modern
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 74
Scope and Contents
SEGMENT 1: Lie Detection. The pursuit of truth is the subject of the first segment of this broadcast, which features demonstrations of scientific methods of lie detection and hypnosis. Fred Inbau, criminology professor at Northwestern University Law School, and Jerome Schneck, a psychiatrist, use on-camera examples of polygraph tests and examples of how police officials attempt to use hypnosis to get at the truth. A film on hypnosis techniques and the use of ink blot tests is also shown....
Dates:
1954
Life in Greenland
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 50
Scope and Contents
Commander Donald B. MacMillan, who accompanied Robert Peary on his expedition to the North Pole in 1909, is interviewed by Charles Collingwood. MacMillan, 79 years old, recalls the expedition through photographic records and film footage of Arctic life. Junius Bouton Bird, curator of archaeology at the AMNH, narrates films that depict polar bears, aerial views of the Arctic, and aspects of Eskimo life, including an examination of their daily life and culture; Eskimo kayaking, hunting,...
Dates:
1953
Life in the sea
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 42
Scope and Contents
Eugenie Clark, of the AMNH Department of Animal Behavior, and Albert E. Parr, Director of the museum, are introduced by host Charles Collingwood as experts on the subject of marine biology. Clark and Parr discuss the movement of the ocean and life in the sea in a remote broadcast from Gilgo Beach, Jones Beach State Park, New York. Scenes from Under the Red Sea, a film made by Austrian marine biologist Hans Haas, show coral reefs, types of coral, collecting underwater animals with a spear...
Dates:
1953
Life in Tibet
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 93
Scope and Contents
Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas describes life in Tibet to Charles Collingwood in this program. The extreme differences between poverty and nobility in this region are examined. An isolated region, there was little communication between the Tibetans and the rest of the world and since Tibet was taken over by China, all communications had stopped. Douglas attributes the easy conquest of Tibet by the Chinese to the Tibetans' cultural beliefs that something better lies on the horizon;...
Dates:
1955
Life of the penguin
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 124
Scope and Contents
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. The characteristics of penguins, the Adľie and chinstrap penguins in particular, are outlined. Sladen shows films of his field work in the South Atlantic and has sequences on Adľie penguins arriving at the breeding...
Dates:
1956
Lila Acheson Wallace Wing of Mammals and Their Extinct Relatives photographic slides, circa 1990.
Collection
Identifier: PSC 32
Abstract
Images of fossils and exhibits in the AMNH Lila Acheson Wallace Wing of Mammals and Their Extinct Relatives.
Dates:
circa 1990
Lincoln Ellsworth Expedition to Graham Land photographs
Collection
Identifier: PPC .E442
Scope and Contents
Antarctic field photographs, features Snow Hill Island, wale bones, iceburgs, and penguins.
Dates:
1934-1935
Living fossils, the crocodilians
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 94
Scope and Contents
The history of living fossils is the topic of discussion for this broadcast. Charles M. Bogert, AMNH herpetologist, discusses the habits and history of huge reptiles, such as garials, caymans and other crocodiles. The living fossils indicate that the appearance of the creatures has not changed substantially in more than 150 million years; Bogert exhibits a giant crocodile skull over six feet in length on the program. Using a live ten-foot alligator in the studio, Ross Allen, owner of the...
Dates:
1955
Locusts
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 130
Scope and Contents
John Schmidt, a Rutgers University entomologist, explains the latest discoveries in protection from locust plagues. The historical incidence of locust plagues in Egypt and China dates back as far as the Biblical Seventh Plague vented on the Egyptians. The story progresses to more recent history when Brigham Young's Mormon settlement was infested in Utah and to the twentieth century when an enormous swarm of locusts attacked Morocco. Models and microscopic views of locusts are shown in the...
Dates:
1956
American Museum of Natural History
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