Interview 12083 – Caption Index: 18
She said, “Where have you been?… Read More
She said, “Where have you been?… Read More
We’ve been holding this job for you.” I guess you could say then, the rest is history. But I started my job at Lincoln Park Zoo in 1967 summer as a summer laborer who, I wasn’t even a keeper. We worked in the Children’s Zoo and I thought it was… Read More
What’s that about?… Read More
And I’d been, I’d had all this exposure to it. So this was kind of the genesis of I always wanted to work with living animals. And I always, I never didn’t wanna work in a museum with dead animals, but I wanted to work with living animals and there,… Read More
I have images of him, vague but images of this large animal in the old monkey house. And you know, “How would you remember Bushman?” “He was,” (babbling) but just as a kid ’cause we were there every day. So that was really my upbringing was Lincoln Park Zoo, literally… Read More
So my story essentially is I wanted to work at the zoo and I would see summer helpers at the zoo and I would go, “How do you get that job?” Well, Chicago’s a very political city at the time, probably still is. And I would, we would always talk… Read More
We should get together for dinner.” And that was it. He hangs up the phone. And he says to me, “Why you still here?” And I went, “What do you mean?” He says, “You got the job.” He had been talking to his friend, William McFetridge, who was the chairman… Read More
What’s the beginning for Mark Rosenthal?… Read More
Well, the beginning for Mark Rosenthal is I, my family lived across the street from Lincoln Park Zoo on Commonwealth Avenue. And my mother, this is in the 40s, and my mother, like many mothers at the time would go to the zoo with their kid. It was the entertainment. Read More
Well, he would come home with giant bags of peanuts. We would go to the zoo. And we would, you know, I was the envy of all these kids. “How did you get all those peanuts?” Right. And we would go and I would feed the ducks at the zoo… Read More
Well, let me say this about filming. At Lincoln Park Zoo, I think I had a sense of wanting to document what was going on at the zoo. I wasn’t the photographer, but there was this medium of videotaping and it was reel-to-eel at the time. And we had a… Read More
We were able to get editors at the time that you had to really have a lot of equipment. It wasn’t like today. So we were able to pull this together. And I just felt at the time, I enjoyed the medium and I wanted to make sure that things… Read More
But let’s switch back a little bit. Read More
Go back, and what was your childhood like and what were animals in your life at that time?… Read More
Many years ago, when I was in, active in the profession, there was a gentleman named Marvin Jones who was registrar at the San Diego Zoo. And Marvin was a fount of information and very knowledgeable, knew everybody in the business in Europe and in the United States. And a… Read More
And I thought about it and through some friends, and I, in 1982, I had done an interview with Marlin Perkins, former director of Lincoln Park Zoo, and serendipitously, ’cause he was at the zoo and I wanted to get the history of Lincoln Park Zoo from him directly, which… Read More
You directed and produced the film “Sinbad Had Surgery”. Read More
Can you speak about that whole effort and how the valuable documentation was even initiated?… Read More
My name is Mark Rosenthal, Mark Allan Rosenthal. I was born in Chicago, Illinois, January 3rd, 1946. And presently, I hold the title of Curator Emeritus at Lincoln Park Zoo. Read More
Before we start with the interview, can you give us some background of the Zoo & Aquarium Video Archive project and how it started?… Read More