Take the cameras to the animals: Film, Television and Mammal Behaviour at the London Zoo, 1955-67

把相机带到动物身上：伦敦动物园的电影、电视和哺乳动物行为，1955-67

• 批准号: 2260731
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Cambridge
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2260731
• 关键词: Take; cameras; animals; Film; Television

In 1955, the London Zoo collaborated with Granada Television to establish its first resident TV and Film Unit. Thefollowing year, Desmond Morris, a recent graduate from Oxford with a DPhil in Zoology, was employed to head the Unit.Before long Morris was Curator of Mammals at the Zoo and had established the institution's first behavioural researchgroup. I propose to examine this confluence of ethological research in the age of Lorenz and Tinbergen and naturalhistory broadcasting at the dawn of independent television in Britain. My research explores how new visual technologiesbecame research tools in the study of mammal behaviour and how the resulting footage and knowledge travelled throughdiverse audiences and media, and were transformed in the process.

1955年，伦敦动物园与格拉纳达电视台合作，建立了第一个常驻电视和电影单位。第二年，刚从牛津大学毕业并获得动物学博士学位的德斯蒙德·莫里斯（Desmond Morris）被聘为该部门的负责人。不久之后，莫里斯成为了动物园的哺乳动物馆长，并建立了该机构的第一个行为研究小组。我打算考察一下洛伦茨和丁伯根时代的动物行为学研究与英国独立电视诞生之初的自然历史广播的融合。我的研究探索了新的视觉技术如何成为研究哺乳动物行为的研究工具，以及由此产生的镜头和知识如何通过不同的观众和媒体传播，并在此过程中被转化。