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Clip #: TFA-386
Length: 22:23
Year: 1947
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1940s
Description:
An expedition sponsored by International Harvester Trucks in the late 1940s to conduct scientific research for short wave radio and to photograph wildlife and native life.
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Clip #: MF-33C
Length: 15:20
Year: 1940
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1940s
Description:
Commander Attilio Gatti leads an expedition, including his wife, engineers and a cameraman, into the Congo with a caravan of vehicles including the luxurious "Jungle Yacht' trailers to explore the native culture and search for okapi.
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Clip #: TFA-67C
Length: 12:48
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1920s
Description:
Amateur films of the return of a sailing expedition from Greenland in the 1920s. Could be MacMillan Arctic Expedition of 1925 on the schooner Bowdoin
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Clip #: TFA-37A
Length: 7:18
Year: 1928
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1920s
Description:
An expedition by rowboat down the Colorado River in 1928 from Greenriver, UT to Needles, CA
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Clip #: MF-14B-9
Length: :40
Year: 1933
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1930s
Description:
Newsreel about Admiral Richard E. Byrd bidding the United States goodbye as he accepts a Kellett autogyro and embarks from Boston in the Bear of Oakland on the Second Byrd Antarctic Expedition.
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Clip #: TFA-381A
Length: 10:23
Year: 1947
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1940s
Description:
A documentary about observing wild animals in Africa from an automobile caravan.
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Clip #: TFA-420A
Length: 24:57
Year: 1942
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1940s
Description:
Part one of a 1942 documentary about an expedition to capture animals in the Brazilian jungle for zoos in the United States.
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Clip #: TFA-420B
Length: 37:44
Year: 1942
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1940s
Description:
Part two of a 1942 documentary about an expedition to capture animals in the Brazilian jungle for zoos in the United States.
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Clip #: TFA-43B
Length: 11:41
Year: 1935
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1930s
Description:
Filming exotic and dangerous animals in Africa in 1935. Made by husband and wife team of Armand Denis and Leila Roosevelt.
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Clip #: TFA-389
Length: 42:08
Year: 1935
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1930s
Description:
Contains footage from the Johnsons' 1933-1934 Flying Safari, as used in two episodes of the 1952 TV series called Osa Johnson's Big Game Hunt. Early 20th century naturalists and explorers, Martin and Osa Johnson journey across Africa in 1935 in two amphibious airplanes, encountering and filming...
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