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Simba, king of beasts : a saga of the African veldt

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Identifier: Film Collection no. 276
Scope and Contents Filmed during the AMNH Martin Johnson African Expedition, 1924-1928. The museum holds five different versions of this American classic film Simba, King of Beasts: A Saga of the African Veldt. They vary in length, have black-and-white or tinted stock, are silent or with musical sound-track, and may have a talking prologue. The version discussed here begins with elegantly dressed Martin and Osa Johnson extolling the marvels of modern technology: talking pictures. A classic coat-of-arms...
Dates: c1928

Southwest Indians

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Identifier: Film Collection no. 278
Scope and Contents Southwest Indians is a combination of the remaining material from two films made by George Clyde Fisher, curator in the AMNH Department of Education: Indian Dances and Southwest Indians. Against a background of teepees, the film opens with Indians (perhaps Taos) in ceremonial costume performing the hoop dance. To these Indians, the hoop or circle is symbolic of the complete and perfect life as well as tribal unity. A man and a boy, covered in white earth and painted with designs, wear...
Dates: 1932

Spirits of the yellow leaves

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Identifier: Film Collection no. 279
Scope and Contents Filmed mainly during the AMNH Weaver Thailand Expedition, 1953-1954. The opening footage of this film was shot by Thomas L. Goodman (a New York-based topographer) in 1965, and was added to the original footage to make the film universally appealing. The scenes shown here contrast traditional and modern Bangkok, and serve as a reference point: following this the film moves on to a study of the mysterious Phi Thong Luang (i.e. Phi Tong Luang) people filmed during the AMNH Weaver Thailand...
Dates: 1953-1954

Sunrise serenades

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Identifier: Film Collection no. 265
Scope and Contents

This film opens and closes with American Indian dances that the narrator suggests are inspired by the courtship behavior of the grouse. The great prairie chicken, the sage grouse, and the sharp-tailed grouse are followed through a day of courtship, beginning with the pre-dawn assembly on the courting grounds and ending at dusk, during the height of the mating ritual.

Dates: 1949

Thar she blows

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Identifier: Film Collection no. 245
Scope and Contents This film was taken during the 1926 Finley-Church Expedition to the Northland. The focus of the film is whaling in the waters off Glacier Bay, and other parts of Alaska. Initially, a boat is seen in pursuit of a porpoise, which is harpooned and pulled into the boat. Seagull chicks are shown being fed on deck, and Arthur N. Pack is seen filming whales with an Akeley camera. Glacier Bay is a popular feeding ground for whales, and humpback whales are shown sounding and breaching. A Rorqual...
Dates: 1926

The Baltistan-Ladakh hunt

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Identifier: Film Collection no. 216
Scope and Contents Filmed during the Morden Expedition to Africa and Asia, 1922-1924. This film chronicles the expedition made by William James Morden and Herford Tynes Cowling to hunt ibex and visit monasteries in northern Pakistan and India. Beginning in Baltistan (northern Pakistan) the expedition team weaves through the rocky terrain filming Baltis as they perform domestic tasks, such as weaving and making sandals. The expedition tracks across snowy Korakorum peaks and valleys and crosses the Indus River...
Dates: 1922-1924

The Captain Marshall Field Brazilian expedition

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Identifier: Film Collection no. 23
Scope and Contents Filmed during the Captain Marshall Field Brazilian Expedition to Brazil, 1926. This film record of the Field Museum of Natural History's 1926 Brazilian expedition, financed and led by Captain Marshall Field, presents expedition life as stylish and romantic. To enhance the mood, colored film stock was used intermittently, especially blue-green for waterways. The perseverance of the scientists in the face of difficulties encountered while collecting in the field is minimized; instead, the...
Dates: 1926

The Central Asiatic Expeditions : Mongols

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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

The Chisena of Mozambique

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Identifier: Film Collection no. 155
Scope and Contents The film begins with narration and maps depicting the early exploration of Mozambique and dwelling particularly on the arrival of the Portuguese. The capital city of Lourenȯ Marques (now Maputo) is recorded with footage showing its harbor, architecture, and native market. The next sequence of the film illustrates the contrasting elements of the city of Beira and the capital. The filmmakers proceed into the interior of Mozambique, crossing the Chengane River by barge on their way to the...
Dates: 1960

The Congo Peacock Expedition

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Identifier: Film Collection no. 157
Scope and Contents Filmed during the AMNH Congo Peacock Expedition to Zaire, 1937. In 1913 James Paul Chapin, AMNH ornithologist and expert on birds of the Belgian Congo (now Zaire), found an unusual feather that he could not identify on a Congo headdress. Twenty-four years later a mounted bird from the Belgian Congo in the Congo Museum (i.e. Musě du Congo Belge) in Tervueren, Belgium, caught his eye because of the similarity between the specimen's feather and the feather he had found earlier. A desire to...
Dates: 1937

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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
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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
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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