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 275 Collections and/or Records:
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
The Sudan
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 51
Scope and Contents
This show begins by examining the type of African films presented to the public, presenting as examples a clip of Simba, King of Beasts and Hollywood versions of African life. The main presentation, however, is an excerpt from The Pagan Sudan, a film made by Edgar Monsanto Queeny, AMNH trustee and chairman of the board of Monsanto Chemical Company. The film carefully depicts the country and its inhabitants, including the Madis and the Dinkas. The Madis are seen spearing a hippopotamus in a...
Dates:
1953
The Templeton Crocker Expedition
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 161
Scope and Contents
Filmed during the Templeton Crocker Expedition to the Solomon Islands, 1933. The objective of the Templeton Crocker Expedition, led by Crocker, was to conduct a preliminary medical, ethnological and natural history survey of the Solomon Islands. This film consists predominantly of ethnographic footage depicting the native clothing, trade, rituals and everyday activities on the various islands. The expedition traveled from island to island in Crocker's ship, the Zaca. The following islands...
Dates:
1933
The time of man
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 281
Scope and Contents
Time of Man ends with AMNH anthropologist Harry L. Shapiro, renowned primatologist and author, posing the question of man's ability to develop a wisdom which will allow him to maintain his environment and survive. The main question being presented here is, "Can man survive?" The film opens with primates in the jungle and cuts to shots of automobiles in crowded cities choked by air pollution. The film presents man as an endangered species and, through film clips and interviews with AMNH...
Dates:
1968
The Tomas of West Africa ; Birdwatching ; Troy
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 80
Scope and Contents
SEGMENT 1: The Tomas of West Africa. The Tomas of Liberia and Sierra Leone, Africa are depicted in a film based on the book Sacred Forest, with special emphasis on their rituals and sacrifices, including male and female initiations. Another film on the Toma people is shown. Made by missionaries, this film depicts weaving, playing games, fishing, preparing food, playing music, parading for an inauguration, and dancing for various ceremonial rituals. Joseph Moore, an anthropology professor at...
Dates:
1954
The Vernay-Cutting Expedition to Burma
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 167
Scope and Contents
Filmed during the Vernay-Cutting Expedition to Burma, 1938. The Vernay-Cutting Expedition to Burma was organized for the purpose of collecting zoological and botanical specimens for the AMNH, the New York Botanical Garden, the Kensington Museum of London (probably the British Museum of Natural History), Kew Gardens, and the Bombay Natural History Society. The international staff included co-leaders and AMNH trustees Arthur Stannard Vernay and Charles Suydam Cutting, AMNH mammalogist Harold...
Dates:
1938
The Vernay deer group
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 284
Scope and Contents
Partly filmed during the AMNH Faunthorpe-Vernay Indian Expedition, 1922-1923. The scenes at the opening of The Vernay Deer Group were edited from footage taken by filmmaker George M. Dyott during the AMNH Faunthorpe-Vernay Indian Expedition to create Jungle Life in India. However, several of the opening shots, including those of does, a stag, gazelles, a cheetah, and a muntjac appear only in this film, and not in Jungle Life in India. In the swamps of the Oudh plains, howdah and pad...
Dates:
1923-1927
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