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Specimens from the New York Zoological Park

No copy you can watch online. No print is known to survive. What follows is what does: the release, the cast, the story, and what the trade press said at the time.

What the papers said

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“Following the last part of Miss Robinson Crusoe, this semi-educational subject is acceptable. It pictures the following specimens: pygmy elephants, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, pygmy hippo, American bison, zebra, Alaskan bear, musk ox, giraffe, walrus, tapir, Siberian tiger, Manchurian leopard, African lion and lioness, lizards from the tropics, giant tortoise and woolly monkeys.”

The Morning Telegraph · 13 October 1912

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Cast and crew

No cast or crew is credited in the surviving sources for this film. Bowers records the title and the release; the names did not come with them.

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More about this film

Filmed in
The New York Zoological Park (the Bronx Zoo)

From Volume II: Filmography of Q. David Bowers’ Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, reproduced with permission and unchanged. Read the history of 1912 →

Cite as: Bowers, Q. David. Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, “Specimens from the New York Zoological Park”. thanhouser.org/films/specimens-from-the-new-york-zoological-park/

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