b'Film Archivist Leopold Krist has been steeped in a century\\u2019s worth of WCS history as he catalogues and digitizies historic archive films documenting conservation work globally, and across New York\\u2019s zoos and aquariums.\\xa0\\xa0
Thanks to funding from the Leon Levy Foundation, which allowed WCS to create the Shelby White and Leon Levy WCS Archives Film Initiative, he is preserving footage of everything from studies of biomechanics of crabs, to the growth of the Bronx Zoo, to polar research expeditions.\\xa0
To see the full catalogue of films, launching in Spring 2024, visit\\xa0https://library.wcs.org/\\xa0
Reporting: Hannah Kaplan
Guest: Leopold Krist'