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Korea
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 200
Scope and Contents
Filmed during the AMNH Andrews Korean Whaling Expedition, 1912. Roy Chapman Andrews, assistant curator in the Department of Mammalogy and Ornithology, went to Korea in 1912 to collect various species of whales. Although he took a lot of motion picture footage, this little film is all that remains. Shown at first are Keijo (now Seoul), then under Japanese rule and called Chosen, and its surrounding hills, the South Gate (for which the city was named), trolleys, and bullock carts. Koreans in...
Dates:
1912
Men of science
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 212
Scope and Contents
This film introduces the scientists, technicians, artists, and their work at the AMNH in 1938. It was made by AMNH photographer Charles H. Coles and is narrated by Charles Russell, curator of the Department of Education. Though mostly filmed at the museum, scenes from AMNH expeditions are included to show the relationship between the work-in-the-field and at the museum. The film opens with a view of the exterior of the museum and a general introduction. William H. Barton, of the AMNH-Hayden...
Dates:
1938
The school service of the American Museum of Natural History
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 271
Dates:
1927
The Central Asiatic Expeditions : Mongols
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 149
Scope and Contents
China and Mongolia, 1921-1930. The first sequence concentrates on daily life in a Mongol camp near Tsagan Nor (or White Lake). The camp is a complex of Mongolian tents (yurts) with men, sheep, and dogs milling about; yaks pull heavy logs; and a camel is being trained. The film moves to Urga (now Ulan Bator) where Khalka women with elaborate headresses are seen; a Mongol affected with gigantism enters the city and is photographed with Roy Chapman Andrews. The film then shifts back to the...
Dates:
1922-1925
Weavers of the Andean highlands
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 288
Scope and Contents
Filmed during the AMNH Myron I. Granger Archaeological Expedition to Peru and Ecuador, 1930. This film was made by Ronald L. Olson, AMNH archaeologist during the Myron I. Granger Archaeological Expedition to Peru and Ecuador. Granger sponsored the expedition for the AMNH. The Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago (disbanded in 1951) approached Clark Wissler, an AMNH anthropologist, about securing motion pictures representing weaving, pottery making, and other such activities, and...
Dates:
1930, 1986
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- Scientific expeditions -- Gobi Desert (Mongolia and China) 3
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- Amahuaca Indians -- Peru -- Inuya River Region -- Agriculture 1
- Amahuaca Indians -- Peru -- Social life and customs 1
- Amahuaca Indians -- Peru -- Ucayli River Region -- Agriculture 1
- Anthropologists -- New York (State) -- New York 1
- Beijing (China) -- Description and travel 1
- Body painting -- Peru -- Ucayli River Region 1
- Dinka (African people) -- Social life and customs 1
- Diorama 1
- Elands -- Collection and preservation 1
- Ethnology -- Sudan 1
- Extinct mammals -- Gobi Desert (Mongolia and China) 1
- Harvest festivals -- Peru 1
- Hornbills -- Africa, East 1
- Hunting -- Africa, East 1
- Indian dance -- Southwest, New 1
- Indian textile fabrics -- Peru -- Ucayli River Region 1
- Indian weapons -- Peru -- Ucalyi River Region 1
- Indians of North America -- Southwest, New -- Rites and ceremonies 1
- Inuya River (Peru) 1
- Jungle animals -- Africa, East 1
- Khalkha (Mongolian people) 1
- Korea -- Description and travel 1
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- Mongolia -- Antiquities 1
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- Natural history -- Asia, Central. 1
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- Nature study -- New York (State) -- New York. 1
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- Nile River -- Description and travel 1
- Peru -- Social life and customs 1
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- Seoul (Korea) -- Description and travel 1
- Shan (Asian people) 1
- Shan (Asian people) -- Dwellings 1
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- Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia) -- Description and travel 1
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- Central Asiatic Expeditions Films (1921-1930) 6
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- Akeley Memorial Hall of African Mammals 1
- Akeley, Carl Ethan, 1864-1926 1
- Akeley, Mary L. Jobe (Mary Lenore Jobe), 1878-1966 1
- Akeley-Eastman-Pomeroy African Hall Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1926-1927) 1
- Andrews Whaling Expedition to Japan and Korea of the American Museum of Natural History (1911-1912) 1
- Andrews, Yvette Borup 1
- Asiatic Zoölogical Expedition (1st : 1916-1917) 1
- Blakely, Dudley Moore, 1902-1982 1
- Carneiro, Robert L. (Robert Leonard), 1927- 1
- Clark, James L. (James Lippitt), 1883-1969 1
- Coles, Charles, 1917-2013 1
- Department of Education 1
- Dole, Gertrude Evelyn, 1915-2001 1
- Dutcher, Irving 1
- Fisher, Clyde, 1878-1949 1
- Granger, Myron I. 1
- Heller, Edmund, 1875-1939 1
- Hope, John William, 1889-1982 1
- Jansson, Arthur August, 1890-1960 1
- Leigh, William Robinson, 1866-1955 1
- Myron I. Granger Archaeological Expedition to Peru and Ecuador (1930) 1
- Nelson, N. C. (Nels Christian), 1875-1964 1
- O'Donnell, Charles Oliver 1
- O'Donnell-Clark African Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1931) 1
- Olsen, George, d. 1939 1
- Olson, Ronald L. (Ronald Leroy), 1895-1979 1
- Raddatz, Richard 1
- Rockwell, Robert H. 1
- Seton, Ernest Thompson, 1860-1946 1
- Wang, Hao-t'ing 1
- Woodcraft Indian Trip to the Southwest of the American Museum of Natural History (1927) 1 ∧ less
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