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Queer creatures of cactus county

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Identifier: Film Collection no. 241
Scope and Contents Filmed during the Finley Expedition to Arizona, 1925. This film was taken during the 1925 Finley Expedition to Arizona. Views of the desert and its flora open this film: creosote bushes; low mesquites; cholla or barrel cactus; and many saguaro are shown. A cross-section of a cholla cactus reveals a supply of liquid, a valuable commodity in this environment. Footage taken by Finley of a jackrabbit and a kangaroo rat follows. In order to be less conspicuous, Finley uses a cactus "blind," from...
Dates: 1925

Ramparts of the north

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Identifier: Film Collection no. 242
Scope and Contents Filmed during the Finley-Church Expedition to the Northland, 1926. This film was taken in the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. Scenes of the expedition's pack mule train are shown initially. A deer is filmed as it wanders into camp. As a hoary marmot suns herself on a rock, she is visited by her young; she picks it up and carries it back to the nest. In the next sequence caribou are tracked; this is followed by a typical Nature Magazine antic: one of the caribou is revealed to be a man holding...
Dates: 1926

Rattlesnakes and boa constrictors, rhinoceros iguana

 Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 268
Scope and Contents The first segment of this film features rattlesnakes and boa constrictors and was made by Gladwyn Kingsley Noble (curator in the AMNH Department of Herpetology). It consists of two sets of footage: the first was filmed in what appears to be the American West, and the second was probably filmed in Santo Domingo around 1923. The rattlesnake sequence depicts a road-building crew using pick-axes to dig into the side of a hill whereupon a rattlesnake den is discovered. The crew proceeds to...
Dates: [192-?]

Records of the Fifth Anthropological Expedition to Central Australia : Mount Liebig

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Identifier: Film Collection no. 269
Scope and Contents Filmed during the Fifth Anthropological Expedition to central Australia, 1932-1935. Also known as Australian Aboriginals, this film was made by the University of Adelaide and the South Australian Museum Field Research Program as a record of the Fifth Anthropological Expedition to Mount Liebig in central Australia. One of the five reels of the film consists of footage taken on the University of Adelaide-Warburton Expedition to the Mann and Ernabella Ranges, also in central Australia. Reel 1...
Dates: 1932-1935

Renting houses for songs

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Identifier: Film Collection no. 243
Scope and Contents This film begins with children making various types of bird houses, and then shows the birds that inhabit the houses. A wren builds its nest out of twigs in one of the small houses; later, eggs are seen in this nest. White-breasted swallows and chickadees are shown feeding young in their houses, and a nuthatch is filmed collecting worms for its young. The film ends with a short scenario: a bluebird is shown feeding its young, and then a cat is shown eating a bluebird. Bluebird "orphans" are...
Dates: [1920?]

Riding the rim rock

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Identifier: Film Collection no. 244
Scope and Contents Filmed during the Pack-Finley Expedition to the Pacific Northwest, 1927. The film opens with canyon scenes in Wyoming, as a mule and rider take in the vista. An adult screech owl and its chick are filmed, followed by footage of a badger digging. Staff members are shown climbing a very tall tree in order to film rough-legged hawk fledglings. The next sequence, filmed in Oregon, features young Pronghorn being captured and relocated via air and ground transportation. The fawns are seen feeding...
Dates: 1927

Seven whales

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Identifier: Film Collection no. 272
Scope and Contents This film shows the making of fiberglass models of seven different whales that were used in a temporary exhibit in the AMNH Hall of Ocean Life. The film was made in cooperation with the museum and won an award at the International Film and Television Festival. Wil Blanche directed and filmed Raymond H. de Lucia, AMNH preparator, creating the models. Both Blanche and de Lucia narrate the film. The picture opens with de Lucia entering the museum and meeting George S. Gardner, chairman of the...
Dates: 1978

Shark research

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Identifier: Film Collection no. 274
Scope and Contents Originally made for the WABC Expeditions television series, this film was taken at the AMNH Lerner Marine Laboratory on Bimini Island, Bahamas. Initial aerial views of Bimini and establishing shots of the Lerner Marine Laboratory are shown. Robert Mathewson, Director, discusses the objectives of the laboratory as well as the areas of on-going research. New Zealanders Peter Suckling and his wife conduct experiments with the lateral line system of fish, a group of sensory organs associated...
Dates: 1961

Shippee-Johnson Peruvian Expedition aerial film collection, 1931-1999

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Identifier: Film Collection no. 292
Content Description

The collection includes films and tapes recording of the Wings over the Andes lecture which documents the 1931 Shippee-Johnson Expedition. The collection also includes outtakes of Wings over the Andes, film of a visit by the Prince of Wales to Peru in 1931, and Shippee family films. Consists of one master print made from five original nitrate films and 21 reels of outtakes, family films and royal visits.

Dates: 1931 - 1999

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Moving Images 154
Scientific expeditions -- Gobi Desert (Mongolia and China) 3
Gobi Desert (Mongolia and China) -- Description and travel 2
Scientific expeditions -- Asia, Central 2
Scientific expeditions -- Mongolia 2
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Aerial photographs 1
Aerial photography -- Peru 1
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
Atlantic salmon fishing -- Canada -- Blue Water Bay 1
Beijing (China) -- Description and travel 1
Birds -- Brazil -- Collection and preservation 1
Body painting -- Cameroon 1
Body painting -- Peru -- Ucayli River Region 1
Cameroon -- Social life and customs 1
Dance -- Cameroon 1
Dinka (African people) -- Social life and customs 1
Diorama 1
Elands -- Collection and preservation 1
Ethnology -- Cameroon 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
Koreans 1
Mammals -- Brazil -- Collection and preservation 1
Manuscript Collection 1
Mongolia -- Antiquities 1
Mongols -- Dwellings 1
Natural history -- Asia, Central. 1
Natural history museums -- New York (State) -- New York -- Employees 1
Naturalists -- New York (State) -- New York 1
Nature study -- New York (State) -- New York. 1
Naxi (Chinese people) 1
Neolithic period -- Mongolia 1
Nile River -- Description and travel 1
Ornamental hairwork -- Cameroon 1
Paraguay River -- Description and travel 1
Peru -- Social life and customs 1
Pueblo dance 1
Reptiles -- Brazil -- Collection and preservation 1
Scientific expeditions 1
Scientific expeditions -- Brazil 1
Scientific expeditions -- China 1
Seoul (Korea) -- Description and travel 1
Shan (Asian people) 1
Shan (Asian people) -- Dwellings 1
Teresopolis (Brazil) 1
Ucayli River (Peru) 1
Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia) -- Description and travel 1
Vertebrates, Fossil -- Gobi Desert (Mongolia and China) 1
Weaving -- Peru 1
Yurts -- Mongolia 1
Zoological specimens -- Collection and preservation 1
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American Museum of Natural History 15
Andrews, Roy Chapman, 1884-1960 6
Central Asiatic Expeditions Films (1921-1930) 6
Central Asiatic Expeditions (1921-1930) 5
Shackelford, James B. 5
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Asaeda, Toshio 2
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
American Legion (Steamship) 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
Bugniet, R. 1
CBS/AMNH Adventure Series (1953-1956) 1
Carneiro, Robert L. (Robert Leonard), 1927- 1
Chapin, James Paul, 1889-1964 1
Cherrie, George Kruck, 1865-1946 1
Clark, James L. (James Lippitt), 1883-1969 1
Coles, Charles, 1917-2013 1
Columbia Broadcasting System, inc. 1
Crocker, Templeton, 1884-1948 1
Cutting, C. Suydam (Charles Suydam), 1889-1972 1
Department of Education 1
Dole, Gertrude Evelyn, 1915-2001 1
Dutcher, Irving 1
Field Expedition to Brazil (1926) 1
Field, Marshall, 1893-1956 1
Fisher, Clyde, 1878-1949 1
France. Ministère des colonies 1
Granger, Myron I. 1
Hayden Planetarium-Grace Peruvian Eclipse Expedition (1937) 1
Heller, Edmund, 1875-1939 1
Hope, John William, 1889-1982 1
Instituto Butantan 1
Ipyranga (Ship) 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
Runcie Stockhausen, Walter Osborne, 1881-1966 1
Seton, Ernest Thompson, 1860-1946 1
Shippee, Robert 1
Shippee-Johnson Peruvian Expedition (1931) 1
Stout, Clare 1
Stout, Gardner D. 1
Templeton Crocker Pacific Expedition (1st : 1934-1935) 1
Wang, Hao-t'ing 1
Woodcraft Indian Trip to the Southwest of the American Museum of Natural History (1927) 1
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