Collection name:

National Zoological Park, Office of Education, Motion Pictures and Videotapes, circa 1938-1980 and undated

Physical Description:

Reference Copy: 1 VHS Tape (7.6 min.)

Physical Location:

Smithsonian Institution Archives

Sublocation:

Box 1, Tape 2

Record type:

Fieldbook record

Object Type:

Field notes

VHS (TM)

16mm

Place:

Brazil

Argentina

Date Range:

1939

Start Date:

1939

End Date:

1939

Abstract:

This reel of 16mm film depicts the field trip of William M. Mann and his wife Lucile Quarry Mann to Brazil and Argentina to collect animals for the National Zoological Park. The film includes footage of scenery taken from a boat and panning film out of a moving train. Also included are rodents (possibly opossums), a William Mann with a hippo, skunks, ostriches, swans, and other birds. The film is silent, black and white, and color, 275 feet, 7.6 minutes long. Users can view this film from the reference copy on VHS at videotape player counter number 000. The reference copy also includes other films, mostly taken at the National Zoological Park.

Topic:

Zoology  Search this

Zoologists  Search this

Wild animal collecting  Search this

Zoos  Search this

Mammalogy  Search this

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Accession #:

SIA RU000395

Access Information:

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National Zoological Park, Office of Education, Motion Pictures and Videotapes, circa 1938-1980 and undated

See more records associated with this person:

National Zoological Park (U.S.)

Data Source:

Smithsonian Field Book Project

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:fbr_item_MODSI1283