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Digitized through the Council on Library and Information Resources' (CLIR) Recordings at Risk Grant Program 2023-24. Copyright Chicago Academy of Sciences, CC BY-NC-SA Publication date ca. 1946 A man, identified as Thurston I. Wright, Academy preparator, pours plaster over a deceased snake, creating a mold from which a model can be made. He erects a frame around the snake, and fills it with plaster. He brushes more plaster along the underside of the snake, still inside of the hardened plaster mold. He paints the words “FOXSNAKE” on the hardened plaster mold, and removes the real snake from within. He kneads clay flat on a papered board, and presses a small snake into the clay, posing it and raising its head up on a wedge-shaped support. He paints plaster over the snake, before depositing more using a small pipette. He alternates using the brush, pipette a spoon to deposit plaster until the whole snake is covered. Next he places a toad on a similar clay platform, and begins to pose it. He uses a pipette to fill the hollow below the toad, and paints plaster over its whole surface. More plaster is laid down within a small metal frame encircling the toad. The clay is peeled away, and the dried mold revealed. The footage, now in color, shows a man, identified as Fred H. Jaeger, Jr., also an Academy preparator, brushing and scraping a bare plaster model of a turtle, before showing the process of painting, using a live turtle for reference. Several finished models are shown together. The reference turtle struggles to escape the platform it was placed on. The underside of the painted snake model is shown, revealing that it is hollow. From the Chicago Academy of Sciences' collection. CHAS:AV:MF-0235. -------------------------- ⇒Visit our website: https://naturemuseum.org/ ⇒Subscribe to our newsletter: https://naturemuseum.us2.list-manage.... ⇒Follow us on Instagram:   / naturemuseum   ⇒Follow us on Facebook:   / thenaturemuseum   -------------------------- About the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum of the Chicago Academy of Sciences - For over 160 years, the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum of the Chicago Academy of Sciences has connected visitors of all ages to nature and science through immersive exhibits, fun family events, conservation research, and in-depth education programs, inspiring the wonder in all of us. Learn more at https://naturemuseum.org/ or buy admission at https://tickets.naturemuseum.org/