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1931 · FILM

Explorers of the World

Released: September 6, 1931Runtime: 120 min

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A compilation film produced by the American Museum of Natural History with footage from six major expeditions of the 20th-Century: the Stoll-McCracken Siberian Arctic expedition, for the American Museum of Natural History, on the schooner Effie M. Morrissey; the exploration of Borneo and Bali by Gene Lamb; an African expedition by James L. Clark, vice-director of the American Museum of Natural History; the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition under the guidance of Lieutenant Commander J. R. Stenhouse that made it to the Ross Sea; footage from the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, shot by Dr. Laurence E. Gould, geologist and second-in-command; and footage from the Tarlano Ethnological Expedition of the Amazon River by Harold Noice.

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