Film Collection
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Distinguishes audiovisual material in the Library that are part of the 1987 Cataloged Film Collection created under the direction of Nina Root.
Found in 274 Collections and/or Records:
Men of the Montaña
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 56
Scope and Contents
Harry Tschopik, curator of ethnology at the AMNH, is interviewed for this program, which examines the cultural characteristics of a small Indian tribe living near the Amazon River in the Montana region of Peru and Ecuador. Tschopik recently returned from a perilous ten-month expedition (the AMNH Tschopik Expedition to Peru) in the Montana area, where he studied and recorded the cultures of the Shipibos, Conibos and Campas tribes before they encountered Western culture (recent discoveries of...
Dates:
1954
Men of the Montaña
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 211
Scope and Contents
Filmed during the AMNH Tschopik Expedition to Peru, 1953. This film was made during the AMNH Tschopik Expedition to Peru in 1953. Dr. Harry Tschopik, AMNH ethnologist, visited the Shipibo, Conibo, and Campa Indians living in the Montana area of Peru along the upper Amazon River. He collected ethnographic specimens and made motion pictures of the people for the museum. The film material is unedited and is discussed here by content: first the Chamas section comprised of the Shipibo and Conibo,...
Dates:
1953
Meshie, child of a chimpanzee
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 213
Scope and Contents
Meshie Mungkut was born in 1929 in French Cameroun (Cameroon) in West Africa and was orphaned shortly thereafter when natives killed and ate her mother. Henry Cushier Raven, AMNH curator of human and comparative anatomy, was in French Cameroun on the Columbia University-AMNH Expedition to collect gorillas and purchased her from the natives. He kept her with him in the field for another year and then brought her to his Long Island home to be raised with his children. This film records...
Dates:
[1932?]
Modern taxidermy : mounting the Indian elephant
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 214
Scope and Contents
This film opens with footage taken from Jungle Life in India, showing the Indian elephant in his natural habitat and Arthur Stannard Vernay, John Champion Faunthorpe, and Louis Jonas, all members of the Faunthorpe-Vernay Indian Expedition, marching through the jungle with their native staff. Then, in a studio at the AMNH, the mounting of the elephant takes place. This film is an interesting and valuable record of museum methods. Louis Jonas, museum taxidermist and Carl Akeley's student,...
Dates:
1926-1927
Mohammedanism
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 101
Scope and Contents
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. The history and role of Mohammedanism in the daily lives of its followers is discussed. Film footage shown includes a pilgrimage to Mecca, produced by the Arabian American Oil Company.
Dates:
1955
Moscow May Day
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 227
Scope and Contents
Despite the title given to this film by William James Morden, it was probably made in November of 1928 during the anniversary celebrations of the Bolshevik Revolution, rather than during May Day festivities. Morden went to the Soviet Union in November to obtain permits for the AMNH Morden-Graves North Asiatic Expedition to collect mammals in Turkestan the following year. The first part of the film features historic sites in Leningrad and Moscow. The Leningrad sites include the Central Naval...
Dates:
1928
Mountain climbing
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 52
Scope and Contents
William O. Douglas, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, and Maurice Herzog, author of the best-seller Annapurna (an account of his expedition to the Himalayas), are the celebrated guests of this program. Douglas, an avid mountain climber, wrote several books on his travel experiences including Beyond the High Himalayas, Of Men and Mountains, and Strange Lands and Friendly People. The two men speak of the dangers, rewards, memorable experiences, and the physical equipment...
Dates:
1953
Mountain climbing with native guides
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 112
Scope and Contents
A discussion of the need for native guides in mountain climbing expeditions is the subject of this broadcast. Sherpa and Hunza men, for example, greatly aided the German expedition ascending Nanga Parbat, in the Himalayas. Author-lecturer James Ramsey Ullman and Charles Collingwood discuss the two-fold problem of native guides on mountain climbing expeditions, which first involve the actual physical dangers and secondly include cultural fears of gods and demons of the mountains. In film...
Dates:
1955
Mountains of the moon
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 229
Scope and Contents
Filmed during the AMNH Ruwenzori-Kivu Expedition, 1926. This film is of the AMNH Ruwenzori-Kivu Expedition to Central Africa, Uganda, and Zaire, the purpose of which was to collect birds and small animals and record the regions visited. The expedition staff consisted of James Paul Chapin, leader and museum ornithologist, DeWitt L. Sage, photographer, and Frank Matthews, ornithologist. The Bambuti pygmies are depicted through group portraits only. Many hippopotomuses are pictured in the river...
Dates:
1926
Mounting buffalo
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 230
Scope and Contents
Robert H. Rockwell, and two assistants, are seen performing several aspects of the mounting procedure in the AMNH Department of Preparation. They insert leg substructures into the loose tanned skin; cover the buffalo model with plaster; fit skin onto the plaster-covered model; insert the legs into sockets; and work the skin into the plaster. The Akeley method of mounting large animals is covered in Mounting The Indian Elephant. This is all that remains of a much longer film.
Dates:
[1920?]
American Museum of Natural History
Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library
200 Central Park West
New York, NY 10024-5192