Mr. Peale's Mastodon : the first American natural history museum

Genre: Adaptation | Biographical | Educational | Historical

Year Published: 1953

Creator: Indiana University Audio-Visual Center: Distributor | National Science Teachers Association: With the Cooperation of | Teaching Film Custodians: Distributor

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Teaching Film Custodians abridged classroom version of a Cavalcade of America television episode, "Mr. Peale's Dinosaur" (season 2, episode 13), which originally aired December 29th, 1953 on ABC-TV. Dramatizes the work of Charles Willson Peale, an American painter, soldier, scientist, inventor, politician and naturalist, in founding the first natural history museum in the United States at Philadelphia in 1797 and his excavation of the complete skeleton of a prehistoric mastodon as a museum exhibit.

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