Moving Images
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: To identify items in the Moving Image data set.
Found in 291 Collections and/or Records:
The romance of the soil
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 47
Scope and Contents
An in-depth presentation of the physical and chemical properties of soil and man's dependence on it is made by Richard H. Pough, chairman of the AMNH Department of Conservation and Plant Ecology. One segment of the program shows plant growth through time-lapse photography, with unusual views of underground roots drinking up water from the surrounding earth. This film was made by Irving Milgate and co-produced by the National Film Board of Canada and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The...
Dates:
1953
The saltwater marsh diorama
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 270
Scope and Contents
This film depicts the step-by-step construction of a diorama of the marsh at the Thames Science Center in New London, Connecticut, from the collection of accessories to the completed exhibit. Preparation begins at the Pattagansett salt-water marsh near Niantic, Connecticut. A stereoscopic camera is used to record the sand dunes, tidal estuary, flood plains, and freshwater inlet, which will serve as models for the background painting. Leaf, grass, and plant specimens are collected and...
Dates:
1981
The scientific expedition to the South Pacific in the yacht Zaca
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 160
Scope and Contents
Filmed during the AMNH Templeton Crocker Pacific Expedition, 1934-1935. On this expedition in his yacht, the Zaca, Templeton Crocker was accompanied by AMNH staff members James Paul Chapin, leader and ornithologist, Harry L. Shapiro, anthropologist, and Francis Lee Jacques, preparator and artist, all of whom appear in the film. Other expedition staff members included Toshio Asaeda, artist and photographer, Arthur Pedersen, ship's captain, and George Lyman, ship's surgeon. The expedition's...
Dates:
1934-1935
The sea hunters
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 65
Scope and Contents
This remote broadcast from the Gilgo Beach Marine Laboratory of the AMNH, surveys the techniques of marine hunters. Eugenie Clark, research associate for the museum's Department of Animal Behavior, narrates two films: an underwater sequence that shows a struggle between a moray eel and an octopus and another which includes both a polar bear hunting a seal, and a native spear fisherman battling a shark off the coast of Haiti.
Dates:
1954
The Shalako ceremony at Zuni, New Mexico
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 273
Scope and Contents
The Zuni Shalako ceremony is a dramatic presentation by masked men who impersonate kachinas. Kachinas are mythical ancestors of humans; they visit the earth during the winter, but spend the rest of the year in the spirit world. The film begins with scenes showing the impersonators praying, ritually smoking cigarettes, and making prayer sticks (pahos). These activities are performed both individually and as a group. Ultimately they all kneel at a rock shrine in prayer after removing their...
Dates:
1923
The silent enemy
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 275
Scope and Contents
William Douglas Burden, a trustee of the AMNH, hired professional cinematographer Marcel Le Picard to make this film in an effort to show the Ojibwa people as they were before acculturation changed their ways forever. Chief Yellow Robe explains the purpose of the film in a prologue and expresses gratitude for the opportunity to tell the Indians' story. Titles are used through the rest of the story. The story centers around Baluk, a young brave, and the evil medicine man, Dagwan, both of whom...
Dates:
1930
The Snyder East African expedition
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 277
Scope and Contents
The Snyder East African Expedition was sponsored and led by Harry Snyder, sportsman and patron of the AMNH. The staff included George Gilbert Goodwin, AMNH assistant curator of mammals, who also photographed the expedition; John A. Hunter, white hunter; and Colonel A. J. Macnab, President of the Camp Fire Club of America and a firearms expert. They went to collect mammals and to explore territory southwest of the Taita District in Kenya. Geographically, this film contains scenes of the Voi...
Dates:
1938
The story of cortisone
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 86
Scope and Contents
The subject of the program is the discovery of cortisone as a treatment for arthritis. Studies indicate that symptoms of arthritis can be traced back to prehistoric dinosaurs. Dinosaur fossils from the Jurassic period of more that 150 million years ago, show signs of arthritis. A painful disease for both men and women through the ages, arthritis continues to afflict modern man. It was not until chemist Edward Calvin Kendall and physician Philip Showalter Hench discovered cortisone that...
Dates:
1954
The story of Marco Polo ; Campa ; Drums
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 76
Scope and Contents
SEGMENT 1: The Story of Marco Polo. Eleanor Roosevelt is the honored guest on this Adventure broadcast. She narrates a documentary on Marco Polo's expeditions, and recounts her own experiences in the Orient. She also presents illustrations of what Marco Polo encountered during his travels. SEGMENT 2: Campa Indians. Harry Tschopik, assistant curator of ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History, describes the careful negotiations which take place with native people to record their...
Dates:
1954
The Stouts in Africa
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 280
Scope and Contents
Traveling to sites in Kenya, such as the Shima Hills, Tsavo River, Samburu, and Lake Nakuru, Gardner D. Stout, AMNH President from 1968 to 1975, and his wife, Clare, filmed many birds and mammals indigenous to the area. There is extensive, well-photographed footage of the birds and mammals of the region.
Dates:
1972
American Museum of Natural History
Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library
200 Central Park West
New York, NY 10024-5192