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

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部门。第二年，刚从牛津大学获得动物学博士学位的戴斯蒙德·莫里斯（Desmond Morris）受聘领导该小组。不久，莫里斯就成为了动物园哺乳动物的馆长，并建立了该机构的第一个行为研究小组。我建议考察洛伦兹和丁伯根时代的动物行为学研究和英国独立电视诞生之初的博物学广播的融合。我的研究探索了新的视觉技术如何成为哺乳动物行为研究的研究工具，以及由此产生的镜头和知识如何通过不同的受众和媒体传播，并在此过程中被转化。

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.