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DOI: 10.25549/hancock-c82-30599
title: The new frontier, 1949? [excerpts]

description: The new frontier (Allan Hancock Foundation, 1949?). Documentary using footage from the 1949 scientific exploration cruise of the Velero IV in the Gulf of California. Marine specimens in situ and ex situ: barnacles, centipedes, clam, crabs (hermit crabs, et al.)), eels, grouper, jellyfish, leopard shark, lobsters, millipedes, mud skates, prawn, sea anemones, sea horses, sea slugs, sea snails, sea urchins, shrimp, squid, starfish (brittle stars, feather star, sunflower sea stars, et al.), tropical fish, worms, et al. “New Frontier Black & White Work Print” – container. "#4" -- leader. “#6” – leader. 24 frames per second.
DOI: 10.25549/hancock-c82-30544
title: Allan & Helen Hancock, Caribbean, 1939

description: Captain Allan Hancock and his new bride, Helen Leaf Morgan, around the time of their marriage, near the shore and on the beach, Caribbean, UK, 1939 April 3-26. “Lady & Capt. / Ladies in swimming” – container. 18 frames per second.
DOI: 10.25549/hancock-c82-30609
title: Death trap of the ages, 1928 [excerpts]

description: Death trap of the ages, 1928 [excerpts]. An educational film produced by G. Allan Hancock describing the tar pits at Rancho La Brea in Hancock Park, Los Angeles, as well as the fossilized bones of animals unearthed there and the scientific work surrounding them for the Los Angeles County Museum of History, Science, and Art. W.V.D. Kelley, photographer and intertitles. “Death trap of the ages” – container. “Misc. print from ‘Death trap’” – leader.
DOI: 10.25549/hancock-c82-30493
title: Capturing elephant seals, Guadalupe Island, Mexico, 1933 & 1935

description: Capturing elephant seals for the San Diego Zoo, from Guadalupe Island, Baja California, Mexico, 1935 May [?]. Also brief footage of elephant seal bull being fed in enclosure at Zoo, San Diego, California, USA, 1935 May [?]. Also brief footage of canvas shelter to shade preparation of seal habitat group for Field Museum, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 1933 June. Present are: Louis Filley, Karl Hallikainen, Captain Allan Hancock, Julius Friesser, et al. “USC – Dr. Garth – elephant seals” -- container.
DOI: 10.25549/hancock-c82-30496
title: Hancock & Kraft arrive on Floreana Island, 1930s

description: Captain Allan Hancock and Dr. Rollan Kraft arrive on Floreana Island (aka Charles Island, aka Santa Maria Island), 1934 December 5-6 or 14. Also present is oarsman Kalle “Karl” Hallikainen. Two digital transfers.
DOI: 10.25549/hancock-c82-30541
title: Dawson truck trip, Mexico, 1946

description: E. Yale Dawson’s Guggenheim marine phycological expedition to Mexico and Central America, “throughout Baja California and along the coast from Punta Peñasco, Sonora, to Tapachula, Chiapas“, 1946. The trip by Dawson and his family by truck covered arid areas, the jungle, being ferried across and fording rivers, roadwork, volcano eruption aftermath (Parícutin in Michoacán, or, Popocatépetl in Puebla or Morelos or Mexico), the Aztec archaeological city of Teotihuacan (near Mexico City), busy market town views including church, town square, and dwellings; also a trip via dugout canoe on a river. “Dawson – Mexico by truck” – container. "En 1946, como becario de la John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, el autor inició una serie de expediciones de colecta, que se han extendido por toda Baja California y a lo largo de la costa desde Punta Peñasco, Sonora, hasta Tapachula, Chiapas." [In 1946, as a fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the author began a series of expeditions of collection, which have spread throughout Baja California and along the coast from Punta Peñasco, Sonora, to Tapachula, Chiapas.] -- E. Yale Dawson. "Resumen de las investigaciones recientes sobre algas marinas de la costa pacífica de México, con una sinopsis de la literatura, sinonimia y distribución de las especies descritas" in Revista de la Sociedad Mexicana de Historica Natural (13): 97-197. 16 frames per second.
DOI: 10.25549/hancock-c82-30147
title: Velero III & ocean views; sea lions & elephant seals, San Benito Islands, 1937

description: Velero III and ocean views, sea lions and capturing elephant seal for San Diego Zoo, San Benito Islands, Baja California, Gulf of California, Mexico, 1937 July 14-15. Present are: Captain Allan Hancock, Cy Perkins Jr., Cy Perkins Sr., Dr. Harry Wegeforth, et al. “Guadalupe Island 1936, Hancock expedition” – container.
DOI: 10.25549/hancock-c82-30213
title: Seals on the beach & in the water, 1931-1941

description: Views of seals on the beach and water. Present is Captain Allan Hancock and another man, [1931-1941]. “Elephant seal.” [sic?] – container.
DOI: 10.25549/hancock-c82-30651
title: The new frontier; Geology at sea, both 1952-1953 [sound only]

description: Narration for a film on sea exploration, 1952-1953. The narrator may be Kenneth Emery or John Garth. The sound track was probably to be used for the documentary film “New frontiers”. The topics covered include microscopic foraminifera, collecting sea bottom samples, scuba diving, giant kelp beds harboring abalone and lobster, the use of the benthograph launched from the Velero IV off Catalina Island to provide underwater photography. Marine animals and plants mentioned include: single-celled calcareous forminifera, giant kelp, sea lions, fish, abalone, lobster, sand shark, bat rays, medusa jelly fish, sea urchins, worms, and shellfish. “Garth/Emory [sic]” – container. ? Narration for a film on sea exploration on the Velero IV, the University of Southern California’s marine laboratory, 1952-1953. The narrator may be Kenneth Emery or John Garth. The first part (to 00:10:16) was to be used for the documentary film “New frontiers”. Topics covered include benthograph operation, underwater photography and lighting, the sea floor. Marine animals and plants mentioned include: Emerita (sand crab), Sipuncula (peanut worm), Munida (a lobster-like crustacean), hermit crabs, hydrocoral, scaphophod shell, crinoid florimestra (sea lily), stomatopod (mantis shrimp), hydrozoan medusa (jellyfish), Ogilbia (brotula fish), shrimp, Cycloes (box crab), Gymnothorax mordax (moray eel), Urobatis concentricus (ray or skate), sea urchins, brittle stars, tube worms, sea pens, crinoids, sea cucumbers. The second part (from 00:10:24) was to be used for “Geology. Geology at sea”. Topics include the Velero IV and its navigational equipment, the study of waves and currents, sedements, the measurement of water salinity and temperature using a Nansen bottle lowered by a winch, the measurement of water opacity (suspended sediment) using a Secchi disk, other analyses such as water acidity, chloride content, sulfate, and other ions. Collection of plankton using silk nets and observiation under a microscope. Marine plants and animals mentioned include: plankton, diatoms. “Garth/Emory [sic]” – container.
DOI: 10.25549/hancock-c82-30559
title: Velero IV under way & waves, 1974

description: Velero IV under way from Los Angeles Harbor. Also views of the ocean off the coast of southern California, including a long breakwater jetty, waves crashing, waves cresting, some ships, and an unidentified point. There is also a brief scene of a woman working in an office, possibly related to cartography or architecture or engineering. The film was shot by the Horace Jordan of the University of Southern California Department of Cinema, 1974(?). The container and leader of the film mistakenly(?) indicate the footage is of the marine science laboratories on Catalina Island and includes sea plane footage. “Int. seaplane, Cat. labs 6/22-24 (125)” – container. “212ECO4-381430, USC Cinema” – leader. “Foot, 212ECO4, USC Cinema, Horace Jordan, 73-SPU-082, ‘Marine Science’, 53355, 381430” – tail. 24 frames per second.
DOI: 10.25549/hancock-c82-30620
title: Birds on Isabel Island, Mexico, 1927

description: Boobies and frigate birds on Isabel Island, Mexico, possibly on Oaxaca (ship) cruise of 1927 November-December. Present is Captain Allan Hancock. “964 B/C - To Galapagos” – container. 16 frames per second.
DOI: 10.25549/hancock-c82-30643
title: An Indian Durbar, 1926

description: “An Indian Durbar, coronation of Indian prince, 1926” – container. The coronation took place in Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, India, 1926 February 25. 16 frames per second. “Released by Eastman Kodak as part of the Cinegraph Film Library in 1926, this short silent film by Herford Tynes Cowling, A.S.C. shows the Indian durbar or court of Maharaja Hari Singh GCSI GCIE GCVO (23 September 1895 – 26 April 1961). Singh was the last ruling Maharaja of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir in India. As the film shows, he was crowned as the Maharaja of Kashmir in 1926. The coronation ceremony included a fantastic parade of elephants, and various tribal chiefs who presented their new ruler with treasure. Singh remained titular Maharaja of the state until 1952, when the monarchy was abolished. He spent his final days in Bombay and died in 1961.” -- https://stock.periscopefilm.com/xd10654a-an-indian-durbar-1926-court-of-sir-hari-singh-maharaja-of-kashmir-silent-film/
DOI: 10.25549/hancock-c82-30656
title: Orangutang, elephants, seals, San Diego Zoo, Calif., 1930s

description: Zookeepers interact with orangutang, elephants, and seals (including elephant seals), San Diego Zoo, San Diego, California, USA, 1930s. Captain Allan Hancock shakes hand of orangutang. “Animals, San Diego Zoo” – container. 16 frames per second.
DOI: 10.25549/hancock-c82-30663
title: Violoncello & piano concert, Music Salon, Hancock building, USC, 1950s-1965

description: Violoncello and piano concert [no audio], Music Salon, Hancock Museum, Allan Hancock Foundation building, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA, 1950?-1953?. Several scenes and takes. Captain Allan Hancock (violoncello). William Strobridge (piano). Filmed by Cinema Department, University of Southern California, produced by “CHAP”. Many scenes are preceded by a slate clapper indicating scene, take, roll, producer, and production number ?. Allan Hancock, in tuxedo, speaks [no audio] while sitting at a table. William Strobridge speaks [no audio]. Two copies of Hancock speaking.
DOI: 10.25549/hancock-c82-30618
title: Birds on Isabel Island, Mexico, 1927

description: Boobies and frigate birds on Isabel Island, Mexico, possibly on Oaxaca (ship) cruise of 1927 November-December. Present is Captain Allan Hancock. “964 B/C - To Galapagos” – container. 16 frames per second.
DOI: 10.25549/hancock-c82-30632
title: Quetzal quest, 1941

description: Short educational documentary, "Quetzal quest" (Bell & Howell: Filmosound Library series “Our colorful world”, 1941). Produced by Victor Wolfgang Von Hagen. Edited by William F. Kruse. "This film was made by Victor Wolfgang Von Hagen who with Quail Hawkins has also written a book of the same title. 'Shows the capturing of the Quetzal, a very rare and beautiful bird found in the central jungle region of Mexico. The photography appears dark in spots and in other places it is rather hazy. The color is beautiful, but fades in places. Too much irrelevant material. California. The color in this beautiful film... is outstanding... Highly recommended for nature groups and science groups studying birds.' -- Committee on Classroom Films" -- Educational Film Catalog (1943) p. 163. Locales include: Teotihuacan (near Mexico City), jungle, on board ship. People present include: Arnulfo Arias, Augusto Samuel Boyd. "Quetzal quest" -- container. 18 frames per second.
DOI: 10.25549/hancock-c82-30525
title: Southern Cross events in Los Angeles, Oakland, Honolulu, Brisbane, San Francisco, 1928

description: The Southern Cross makes the first trans-Pacific flight from the United States mainland to Australia, 31 May – 9 June 1928. On the airplane were Captain Charles Kingsford-Smith (pilot), Charles Ulm, Harry Lyon (navigator), and James Warner (radio operator). Allan Hancock, who owned the airplane and loaned it for the flight (later gifting it to Kingsford-Smith), was co-pilot on the first leg from Los Angeles to Oakland, California. The Southern Cross’ first stop after leaving Oakland was Honolulu, Hawaii. The celebratory parade celebrating the return of Lyon and Warner to San Francisco took place on 11 July 1928. Also present: Captain Allan Hancock, Leila Lyon (Harry Lyon’s mother), James Rolph (mayor, San Francisco). “Southern Cross” – container. 16 frames per second.
DOI: 10.25549/hancock-c82-30531
title: Birds of an inland lake, 1941

description: Short educational documentary, "Birds of an inland lake" (Harrison-Roberts Wild Life Films, 1941). “An attractive color film showing the avocet, the cinnamon teal, a family of Canadian geese, the American egret, the magpie, California gulls and terns.” – Educational film catalog (1943) p. 161. “Birds of an inland lake” – container. 16 frames per second.
DOI: 10.25549/hancock-c82-25845
title: Scientific instrument, Velero IV, 1948-1965

description: Scientific instrument, Velero IV, between 1948-1965.
DOI: 10.25549/hancock-c82-25839
title: Island coastline & views of Velero IV, 1948-1965

description: Island coastline and views of Velero IV, between 1948-1965.
DOI: 10.25549/hancock-c82-25840
title: Hancock Films
DOI: 10.25549/hancock-c82-25934
title: Elephant seals capture & transport to zoo, Velero III, 1931-1941

description: Elephant seals’ capture, transport on Velero III, and release into their pens at the San Diego Zoo, California, USA, 1931-1941. Captain Allan Hancock is present.
DOI: 10.25549/hancock-c82-25955
title: Velero III photographers on arid island, 1931-1941

description: Group of men from the Velero III [?] hike an arid island with photography equipment, 1931-1941. Captain Allan Hancock is one of the men.
DOI: 10.25549/hancock-c82-30566
title: Banana commerce, food vendors, agriculture, pototo harvest, Equador, 1935 or 1938

description: Ecuador trip including transfer of goods such as bananas to large ship on the Rio Guayas at Guayaquil, food vendors near the railroad at Chimborazo, field plowing, and potato harvest en route to Cotopaxi, 1935 January or 1938 February. The footage of field plowing and potato harvest have been identified as in Peru as well. “Potato seq[uence] cut – complete copy” – container. 16 frames per second.
DOI: 10.25549/hancock-c82-30645
title: Friesser & Wonder prepare elephant seal carcass, Guadalupe Island, Mexico, 1933

description: Taxidermists Julius Friesser and Frank Wonder skin and prepare plaster cast of elephant seal on the beach of Guadalupe Island, Baja California, Mexico, 1933 June, for creation of seal habitat group for Field Museum, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Members of the crew of Velero III assist in raising tent, transporting seals bones back to the ship, and loading a live elephant seal specimen on the ship. Oarsman Kalle “Karl” Hallikainen is one of the crewmen. “Skinning elephant seals” – container. 16 frames per second.
DOI: 10.25549/hancock-c82-25116
title: Colorful Latin America, [1938?]

description: "Colorful Latin America". Captain Allan Hancock and others on the bridge of the Velero III (ship), port views, coastline views, Hancock using sextant, dolphins[?] racing along side of Velero III, three men in a large rowboat pulling in a dredge, several men on two-mast sailboat, several people coming to shore in a motor launch (No. 2 27-A-130) towing a small rowboat, Hancock and others disembarking rowboat on shore", elephant seals or sea lions laying on beach, group of men capturing a sea lion and loading it aboard a rowboat (for the San Diego Zoological Gardens), rocky coastline views, man on board ship feeding fish to an sea lion in the water, many sea lions moving around the beach and in the surf, men capturing a sea lion, moving a wooden cage on an improvised sled containing a sea lion along the ground (upside down footage), Andean condors on the ground and in flight, many local men at a fishing port, truck, "Saladero" written on shed in port, two men spreading wings (9½-foot wingspan) of dead condor. "[Dr. Garth] -- Elephant seals" -- written on container. Probably the sea lion rookery, Point San Juan, Peru (south of Pisco). Possibly 1938. "Wrecked sailors. Captain and Ray on sailboat, Rescued equa. sailors towing boat" -- written on reel.
DOI: 10.25549/hancock-c82-30563
title: Octopus specimens, 1931-1941

description: Three or four different octopus specimens in glass tank, tide pool, and on canvas surface (probably a boat cover on Velero III, 1931-1941); briefly, a brittle star. “Octopus” – container. 18 frames per second.
DOI: 10.25549/hancock-c82-30378
title: Hancock Films
DOI: 10.25549/hancock-c82-27625
title: Hancock Photographs
DOI: 10.25549/hancock-c82-27614
title: Hancock Photographs
DOI: 10.25549/hancock-c82-30186
title: Guadalupe Island, Mexico, 1936

description: Guadalupe Island, Mexico, 1936.
DOI: 10.25549/hancock-c82-27618
title: Hancock Photographs
DOI: 10.25549/hancock-c82-30581
title: Men hiking on rough arid terrain, 1931-1933

description: Men from Velero III hiking on rough arid terrain, 1931-1933. Present are Captain Allan Hancock and possibly Herman Marsh. “Mountain climbing” – container. 18 frames per second.
DOI: 10.25549/hancock-c82-30546
title: Small dredge collects sea floor mud sample, Velero III, 1931-1941

description: Captain Allan Hancock, first officer W. Charles Swett, and other men on board Velero III in small dredge recovery operation, 1931-1941. “Aboard Velero, mud sample” – container. 16 frames per second.
DOI: 10.25549/hancock-c82-25121
title: Santa Barbara tidepool fauna, [1931-1941]

description: "Santa Barbara". Four men look at specimens in jars aboard a ship (Velero III?). "1191 40" placard. Man manipulating specimen with forceps in shallow tidepool, man collecting marine specimens from rocks in shallow water (some footage upside down), furry spiny brown caterpillar[?] moving along rock- and shell-covered ground, close-up of tiny octopus in shallow tidepool, close-up of octopus hiding among rocks.
DOI: 10.25549/hancock-c82-30428
title: Camera test views of Guadalupe Island, Mexico, 1936

description: Camera test views of Guadalupe Island coastline, Mexico, from Velero III, 1936.
DOI: 10.25549/hancock-c82-27600
title: Hancock Photographs
DOI: 10.25549/hancock-c82-27575
title: Hancock Photographs
DOI: 10.25549/hancock-c82-27610
title: Hancock Photographs
DOI: 10.25549/hancock-c82-29693
title: Hancock Photographs
DOI: 10.25549/hancock-c82-27528
title: Marine specimens, Velero IV, 1952

description: Four photographs of trays holding marine specimens recovered from the sea bottom through use of an orange peel corer, Velero IV (possibly near Santa Catalina Island), 1952 June 26. The trays sit on the sorting table on the aft deck.
DOI: 10.25549/hancock-c82-27595
title: Hancock Photographs
DOI: 10.25549/hancock-c82-29706
title: Hancock Photographs
DOI: 10.25549/hancock-c82-27626
title: Hancock Photographs
DOI: 10.25549/hancock-c82-27566
title: Allan Hancock expedition chart. Cruise of 1933

description: Two photographs of a chart (with and without title) of Allan Hancock expeditions cruise of 1933 to Mexico, Panama, Malpelo Island, Ecuador, Galápagos, & Costa Rica aboard the Velero III. 1932 December 29 to 1933 March 23. Stations 1-33 to 127-33.
DOI: 10.25549/hancock-c82-29590
title: Hancock Photographs
DOI: 10.25549/hancock-c82-27596
title: Hancock Photographs
DOI: 10.25549/hancock-c82-27605
title: Hancock Photographs
DOI: 10.25549/hancock-c82-27667
title: Hancock Photographs
DOI: 10.25549/hancock-c82-27678
title: Hancock Photographs
DOI: 10.25549/hancock-c82-25049
title: Velero IV cruise, 1954

description: "Velero IV 1954 cruise". Isla Isabela (Isabela Island), Gulf of California, Mexico, 1954 January 26: Close-up of boobies standing on ground, walking around, with chick, flying over rock coast, ship anchored off coast, birds in bushes or trees, includes Man-o'-war frigate bird (red wattle), close-up of lizard on beach, diver surfaced in water, bird sitting on nest with three eggs, includes blue-footed booby, more nesting, Brewster's boobie perching, and flying birds, boobie fighting off other birds. ? Sailboat with five men onboard off shore, men in rowboat (one wearing a tam o shanter) "mad cap race contestant". ? Buildings (old fort and hotels) on Acapulco Harbor coastline as viewed from Velero IV (ship) (1954 January 30 - February 3), two men on pilot boat, more harbor coastline views, eight people (including two women (Hancock's wife Marian Hancock is wearing black hat and light blue jacket)) from the Velero IV in a motor boat piloted by Captain Allan Hancock go toward shore ("departure from [for?] Mexico City"), view of Acapulco Harbor from on shore, large villa perched on cliffs, other buildings perched on cliffs, freighter in harbor, four men in motor boat from the "U.S.C. Velero IV, L.A." piloted by Hancock tow a rowboat with one man in it. ? An undeveloped cove viewed from on shore, an iguana in a tree, a lizard on the ground in the branches of bushes, the surf rolling into a rocky shore, cacti, view of the two ships off shore, five men standing on the beach including Hancock (black hat with gold braid), men climbing up scarp into the brush to capture iguana, men carrying cage containing lizard to rowboat at shoreline, three men walking on beach including Hancock, men rowing to shore from Velero IV anchored in the distance, children ("natives") with adults including Hancock (standing at right; Fred C. Ziesenhenne wearing a black cap is in black swimming trunks with red and yellow pictures on it), a bunch of men walking around near grass huts and other structures near the beach including Hancock ("hotel inspection"), Hancock and another man sit in chairs, two automobiles parked along a dirt road with thatched buildings, marine animal ("turtle"?) briefly surfacing in the ocean, the S.S. Harry Lundeberg (ship) partially capsized run aground near large rock formations near Cape San Lucas, Lower California (1954 February 8), flying seagull, winch on the Velero IV pulling up a drag line for a dredge. ? Turtle Bay: birds (pelicans) perched along the rocky shore, flocks of birds flying, searching for specimens in a tidepool, porpoises? swimming along side the Velero IV, birds flying over the radar tower of the Velero IV, 1954. "Round up" -- written on reel.
DOI: 10.25549/hancock-c82-25123
title: Benthograph operations, Velero IV, Santa Catalina, 1949-1950

description: "Velero IV 49-50, benthograph (orig[inal])". Various scenes with the benthograph (both close and far shots), the scientific equipment it contains, being loaded into it, its hatch being secured, being winched into and out of the water over the side of the Velero IV (ship) into the water in Avalon Bay, Santa Catalina Island. In most of the scenes are Captain Allan Hancock (wearing captain's hat), Dr. Maurice Nelles explaining the equipment, possibly Perry Stilley assisting with the equipment, a photographer and cameraman are also in the scene at in few places. Several people approach in a rowboat, a motorboat races by. Similar raising and lowering operations of the benthograph in a different location with some different people present.