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Meshie, Child of a Chimpanzee

Meshie, Child of a Chimpanzee

  • 1932
  • · 51m

Director Henry Cushier Raven
Genre Documentary

In 1931, Henry Cushier Raven, the American Museum of Natural History’s Curator of Human and Comparative Anatomy, returned from West Africa to his home in Long Island with a baby chimpanzee named Meshie. Raven shot a home movie-style documentary of Meshie living, playing with, and taking care of his young kids Harry, Jane, and Mary.

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