Based on the material of experiments in the field of physiology of higher nervous activity, the St. Petersburg Primatological Center (on monkeys), it tells about the imitative activity of animals and humans. Six monkeys were settled on an island in the Central Park…
















Circus, spectators in the hall, circus program, artists performing.
A horse is jumping around the arena.
Trainers are showing a number with monkeys.
The monkey catches balls, throws them into the ring.
Rehearsal of a circus number - trainers work with monkeys, give them commands, the monkey throws balls into the ring, etc.
The monkeys walk along the horizontal bar, the trainers give them commands, give them treats.
Rehearsal in the circus, break, trainers with monkeys are sitting on the edge of the arena, trying to feed one of the monkeys a banana.
Monkey Natasha eats a banana for the first time - at first she refuses, but then she eats the treat.
Children's playroom, small tables are arranged in a semicircle, small children are sitting at them.
A man works with children in a playful way, shows them how to sculpt from plasticine, the kids repeat after the teacher.
Close-up - a girl takes a piece of plasticine and rolls it out on the table.
A man shows how to roll out pieces of plasticine, and the children follow suit.
A newborn baby.
A doctor in a white coat is leaning over the child.
Close-up - the baby's face.
The child's mother is leaning over the baby, giving him a bottle of milk, and the baby is drinking the milk.
Feeding a baby - the baby is drinking juice from a bottle with a nipple, and the child's mother is in the frame.
The child is in a crib, looking at a rattle held in front of him by his mother.
A woman is feeding a baby monkey from a bottle.
Close-up - a small monkey is drinking milk from a bottle.
The baby monkey is on the table, playing with a toilet brush, and a woman is sitting next to it.
The woman is showing the monkey a toy, the baby takes it, plays with it, bites it, and explores it in every way.
The monkey is drinking milk from a bottle.
The woman is smiling, looking at the monkey, holding the bottle, and helping it drink.
Park, cars, minibuses, camera operators with cameras, employees of the St.
Petersburg Primatological Center in the frame.
Employees unload boxes-cages with monkeys.
Monkey in a cage.
The head of the experiment, professor-primatologist L. A. Firsov, is speaking, correspondents with microphones and dictaphones are standing nearby.
Views of St.
Petersburg, a panorama of a building, a fence.
Sunbeams are breaking through the leaves.
Yelagin Island, Central Park, park alleys, Yelagin Palace in the frame.
Park, pond, on the other bank - a beautiful building with columns.
Vacationers in the park, riding catamarans.
Pond, trees on the bank.
Camera operators with cameras, correspondents, journalists, primatologists are standing on the bank.
Scientists, employees, participants of the experiment with primates load equipment, cages, etc. into boats, sail to the island.
Men unload cages with monkeys.
In the frame - the head of the experiment, professor-primatologist L. A. Firsov.
The staff open the cages, release the monkeys.
In the frame - hamadryas baboons, 6 monkeys, running around the clearing.
The monkeys climb onto a wooden table in the clearing, eat treats, people watch them from a boat, the cameraman films everything on camera.
The whole crowd of monkeys runs somewhere.
A sign "Danger Zone", a panorama of the river, on the other bank you can see a wild boar.
A monkey sits down on the grass.
A group of monkeys explores the island, tries to find food, eats grass.
In the frame - a baby hamadryas baboons, eating grass.
A group of hamadryas baboons in the grass.
Different shots with monkeys, the mother holds the baby by the tail, does not let the distant one go, then puts him on her back and runs away.
A duck with ducklings on the river.
Nests with bird eggs on the ground.
A monkey approaches a nest, takes an egg, and tries to eat it.
A duck swims in the water.
A hamadryas baboon eats an egg.
The frame shows a group of monkeys in a clearing.
Close-up - a male hamadryas baboon eats a twig.
Different shots of monkeys in a clearing.
A female hamadryas baboon with a baby.
A monkey looks through the grass.
A baby hamadryas baboon with a stick.
A monkey runs around the clearing.
A female hamadryas baboon with a baby on her back approaches a river, picks and eats grass.
Monkeys on the bank, near the water.
A rowboat with a group of people floats along the river.
A baby hamadryas baboon near the female.
The monkeys climb onto the boat, which is standing on the bank near the water, explore it, etc.
The baby is eating leaves.
A monkey on the bank, picks and eats leaves and grass.
Close-up - a snake in the grass.
A baby hamadryas baboon eats grass.
A large snake in a clearing - a monkey approaches, notices the snake and moves away.
A group of monkeys is nervous.
Close-up - the head of a snake.
The leader male screams, runs away, followed by frightened monkeys.
Close-up - the head of a snake.
The monkeys are nervous, running from side to side.
Firsov is in a clearing, communicating with the monkeys, giving them treats.
A hamadryas baboon is sitting next to a woman.
In a clearing next to a woman is a group of monkeys, she gives them treats.
Monkeys in a clearing, climbed onto a wooden table, a baby hamadryas baboon tries to escape, but the mother catches him and puts him back on the table.
Monkeys run along the shore, the males scream at an approaching boat.
Monkeys with scientists on an island, a view of the river, on which there are several boats with people.
A female with a baby by the water.
On the water - a piece of treat.
A monkey enters the water, takes a treat and moves to the side towards a group of monkeys.
View of the river, trees, bank.
A group of monkeys is walking along the bank.
Close-up - a fire is burning.
Monkeys are near the fire in a clearing.
The male is touching the burning branches in the fire with a stick, looking at the fire.
The monkeys are looking at the fire, taking branches from there.
A small monkey is eating something.
A male hamadryas baboon is trying to open a bottle of orange juice, other monkeys are watching him.
The male drags the bottle to the table, tries to open it, rolls it, hits it, etc., a female with a baby is watching him.
The male bites the bottle, tries to drink juice from it.
The female with the baby is watching the male.
A monkey with an empty bottle on the bank near the water.
The females are near the male - biting off insects.
The contented face of the male hamadryas baboon.
The male hamadryas baboon is playing with the baby, other monkeys are sitting nearby.
The male bites off insects and combs the fur of the baby.
The male plays with the baby in a clearing.
The female hamadryas baboon with the baby, feeding it.
The monkey finds and drags away the package, examines it, jumps away from it, walks around in circles.
Close-up - a monkey.
The male hamadryas baboon touches the package with a stick.
A turtle crawls out of the package.
The monkeys look at the turtle.
The turtle crawls in the grass.
The monkeys watch the turtle warily.
Hamadryas baboon climb a tree.
The monkeys are on the shore, eating grass and leaves.
The baby hamadryas baboon holds on to a branch.
The monkeys are on the shore by the water.
The baby is trying to climb a tree, other monkeys are sitting nearby.
Close-up - the monkey is scratching itself.
The baby has climbed the trunk of a small tree, but its mother takes it off and takes it away from the tree.
A group of monkeys in a clearing.
The female is feeding the baby.
A monkey is looking at a glass jar.
A monkey in a tree, picking twigs and eating leaves.
A baby is looking at a glass jar, with its male father next to it.
A group of monkeys in a clearing, entering the bushes.
Scientists on an island, with Professor Firsov and Dr.
Marina Vanchatova from the Czech Republic in the frame.
The photographs show Vanchatova with experimental monkeys.
Close-up - monkey drawings.
Sheets of paper, crayons, an orangutan takes crayons, looks at them, and starts drawing on a piece of paper.
A monkey is sitting on the grass, takes sheets of paper, and tries to draw something, with a woman in a blue robe sitting next to it.
Close-up - an orangutan.
The monkey's scribbles are on the sheet.
Firsov and Vanchatova are on the shore, looking at monkey drawings, with hamadryas baboons sitting on the table nearby.
Close-up - orangutan scribbles on paper.
Close-up - various children's drawings.
Children's art studio, the children are sitting at easels, the teacher is speaking - introducing a woman from the film studio, asking the children to draw her portrait.
Close-up - children's faces.
The teacher walks around the studio, watches the children draw.
Close-up - one of the portraits on an easel.
Portrait on an easel, panorama of the woman being drawn.
Close-up - a child's hand drawing a portrait.
Various shots of children drawing at easels.
Panorama of the classroom, in the frame the teacher, women, children at easels, etc.
Close-up - a child's face working on a portrait.
A woman walks around the studio, looks at the portraits, comments, praises the children.
A boy is drawing a portrait.
A woman looks at the children's drawings, smiles.
The face of the woman being drawn.
Various portraits drawn by the children.
Close-up - the face of the boy Lenya.
Lenya's self-portrait.
Photographs and portraits of various scientists, doctors, and teachers - C. Darwin, N. Pirogov, K. Ushinsky, I. Pavlov, L. Orbeli, V. Bekhterev.
A woman with a small child, a switched-on monitor is visible.
A computer keyboard and monitors are in the frame.
The woman is looking at the child in the monitor.
Close-up - the woman's face.
Monitor - a baby in a bonnet is in the frame.
Close-up - hands on the keyboard.
The woman is looking at the monitor, observing the child's behavior.
St.
Petersburg Early Intervention Center - in the frame are employees, colleagues from England, a mother with a child.
Dr. E. V. Kozhevnikova is working with the baby.
The face of the child's mother.
Kozhevnikova is talking to the child, a panorama of the Freud Center employees from England, who are watching the process with interest.
In the frame - a mother with a baby.
Close-up - a soft toy.
Kozhevnikova is working with the baby, colleagues from England are watching the process.
Close-up - toys on the shelf.
Kozhevnikova works with a baby, the process is observed by colleagues from England.
The face of the woman who is observing the learning process.
The baby repeats sounds.
The face of the child's mother.
The baby repeats sounds.
The woman is breastfeeding her baby.
Close-up - a white teddy bear, a soft toy.
A room, children are sitting on chairs, a teacher is sitting opposite, working with children, asking questions about different animals, about the zoo, the children answer, show animals, make sounds, run around the room, etc.
A boy shows a deer.
Various shots from a lesson with children, which is held in a playful way.
Close-up - a macaque.
Circus, rehearsal in the arena, trainers working with monkeys.
The photo shows the Russian primatologist N. Ladygina-Kots with a monkey.
Various photographs - an experiment by Ladygina-Kots, in which the scientist's own son and a baby chimpanzee took part.
Close-up - a hand is putting together colored cubes on a table.
A child at a table, with cubes.
Children are sitting at tables, collecting cubes, a teacher is sitting at a table in the center, watching the children, directing them, etc.
The chimpanzee Martha is collecting a pyramid of cubes using a model, next to the monkey is a female employee in a white coat.
Close-up - a chimpanzee.
A woman shows a picture of a pyramid of cubes to a small child, asking him to make the same one using the cubes that are on his table.
The child is collecting a pyramid of cubes.
Close-up - the face of a female teacher.
The child is changing the top cube on his pyramid.
Close-up - a black and white picture of a pyramid of cubes.
The child is sorting through the cubes.
Panorama of a stand with a picture and a child collecting a pyramid of cubes.
Close-up - a pyramid of cubes in the picture.
A female employee in a white coat shows the chimpanzee a picture of cubes.
The monkey looks at the picture and makes exactly the same construction using cubes.
Different shots - a chimpanzee collecting a pyramid of cubes using the picture.
The shots show different newspaper articles about the experiment with monkeys.
Close-up - hamadryas baboon.
Female hamadryas baboon with her baby.
A troop of monkeys on the island.
Monkeys on the shore, approaching the water.
Hamadryas baboon on a tree.
Monkeys moving around the island, people in boats and catamarans near the shore in the frame.
Elagin Island, park, river, pond.
Sun glare on the water.
Circus, circus performance, trained animals, monkeys, primates, hamadryas baboon, Elagin Island, orangutans, macaques, pedagogy
Firsov L. A. - Soviet and Russian primatologist
ethologist
Doctor of Medical Sciences
professor
Saint Petersburg
Summer