Monkey Island (1974)

Landscapes of the Pskov region - the frame shows a river, a bank, a forest, etc. (panoramic photography).

Different types of nature.

Forest, monkeys running.

In the frame is a chimpanzee monkey.

Monkeys on a tree.

Different plans with chimpanzees are shown - they run along a path in the forest, climb a tree, jump from branch to branch, etc.

Text with information about the experiment with monkeys that were released into the wild and whose lives were observed by scientists.

A small island in the Pskov region, on lakes, where 5 monkeys settled.

In the frame - monkeys moving around the island, climbing trees, jumping on branches, etc.

Monkeys looking out of a wooden cage.

Chimpanzees getting used to a new place, looking around, sitting on the ground, carefully leaving the cage.

Close-up - tree branches with droplets of water.

The frame shows a forest, a clearing, trees, a panorama of a monkey on top of a tree, who is screaming and clapping his hands.

The frame shows Doctor of Medical Sciences Firsov L.A., walking across a clearing, with monkeys next to him.

A chimpanzee on a tree.

Primatologists in a clearing, together with monkeys, are having a small picnic, drinking tea, treating monkeys, etc.

The reaction of a chimpanzee to a snake is shown - one of the primates boldly takes it in his hands, and someone gets scared and runs away.

Clearing, bushes, grass, thickets.

Clearing - chimpanzees walk along a path one after another, scientists follow them.

Chimpanzees climb a tree, swing on branches, scream.

A bird flies low over the river.

A chimpanzee swings on a tree branch.

A lake, a duck with ducklings is swimming.

A chimpanzee swings on a branch.

A chimpanzee in a tree, another monkey running on the ground, a river in the frame, a motorboat with scientists approaching the shore.

The monkeys come down from the tree, meet a female scientist who brought food.

The woman walks with buckets across a clearing, followed by a crowd of chimpanzees.

The woman sits in the clearing, gives food to the chimpanzees, strokes them, etc.

The chimpanzees drink from mugs, eat with spoons, etc.

The chimpanzee tips over a bucket, drinks from it.

The female scientist gives oranges to the monkeys.

The chimpanzees eat oranges.

One of the chimpanzees tries to take someone else's orange, the monkeys swear, scream, conflict, etc.

The monkey screams, hits the ground with its hands.

Another monkey calmly eats an orange.

The monkeys fight.

The monkey climbs a tree.

The monkey screams.

The monkey sits in a tree.

Monkeys in a clearing, climbing trees, running, resting in the grass.

Monkeys in a clearing, looking for fleas on each other.

Monkey in a tree.

A chimpanzee runs across a clearing, gets angry, screams.

Close-up - a chimpanzee makes sounds, curling his mouth into a tube.

Monkeys in a clearing, sorting out relationships, fighting, etc.

In the frame - monkeys playing.

Clearing - two monkeys, one trying to bully the other.

Monkeys in the forest, following each other along a path.

Monkeys in trees, jumping on branches, tasting leaves.

A chimpanzee in a clearing, making his way through grass and thickets.

Clearing - grass, wildflowers in the frame.

A chimpanzee walks along the bank, along the river (shot from the other bank).

Monkeys taste leaves.

A chimpanzee eats berries from a branch.

Another monkey eats leaves.

A chimpanzee jumps onto a branch, swings, and bends the branch to the ground.

The frame shows wild strawberry bushes and berries.

The chimpanzee swings on a branch, picks leaves and berries, and eats them.

Different frames - monkeys search for edible plants and berries and eat them.

A chimpanzee holds a piece of bark with ants, tries to eat insects, and searches for something on the ground.

Close-up - something is in the monkey's teeth, and it tries to remove the obstruction with its finger.

An adult monkey examines a small monkey's mouth.

A monkey swings on a branch and screams.

Two monkeys on the ground also start screaming.

The frame shows an excited chimpanzee waving a stick and hitting a tree with it.

Monkeys are on the shore, by the water, screaming, pointing at something.

A man in a special scuba suit comes out of the water.

The monkeys scream, threaten, wave sticks, etc.

A man tries to approach the primates, but they behave aggressively, swing sticks, try to attack, drive away the stranger.

The monkeys find a reed, taste it, eat it.

Monkeys in a clearing.

Chimpanzees on the shore, by the water - looking around.

In the frame - the leader of the pack.

Close-up - a hedgehog in the grass.

The chimpanzees find a hedgehog, surround it, examine it, try to touch it, poke it with a stick, turn it over, etc.

Close-up - the hedgehog's muzzle.

Monkeys in a clearing, let go of the hedgehog, lose interest in it.

The hedgehog runs in the grass.

Trees on the island, panorama of the clearing where the chimpanzees are resting.

Monkeys are sleeping in a clearing, huddled close to each other.

Various shots of sleeping monkeys.

A man lies on the ground, hugging a monkey.

Panorama of trees, monkey sitting in a homemade nest at the top.

Chimpanzee is shown building a nest in a tree.

Man with camera standing in the tree - filming monkeys.

Monkey hanging on the branch.

Monkey building nest.

Monkey sitting in nest built in tree.

Monkey sitting in tree, jumping from branch to branch, etc.

Monkey in nest.

Evening, sunset, view of lake.

Morning, fog, lake - motor boat with scientists sailing.

Man with hand-held camera - filming monkeys in trees.

Monkeys in nests, on branches.

Monkey sitting in wooden cage.

Scientists near tree, looking up, where nest is located.

Scientists lower nest from tree, examine it.

Lake, shore, grass swaying in wind.

Chimpanzees in boat by the shore - looking around, testing water, jumping, trying to row.

Close-up - chimpanzee.

A boat by the shore.

A chimpanzee takes the rope to which the boat is tied, tugs on it, tries to pull the boat.

The monkeys pull the boat to the shore, climb into it, take out things.

Various funny shots - a monkey takes out a raincoat, puts it on, another monkey tries to put on socks, etc.

The chimpanzees are fooling around, throwing things around.

A chimpanzee in socks walks on the grass.

A man approaches the boat, the chimpanzees throw things down in fright and run away.

A chimpanzee on the shore, by the water.

A monkey jumps from branch to branch, swings on a tree, jumps to the ground, walks across a clearing.

Two monkeys by the water on the shore, one of them rinses a rag in the water.

Monkeys in shallow water by the shore - they stand in the water, wash themselves, bathe.

An experiment - there is a table with a treat in the water, scientists watch how the monkeys will act.

Monkey Gamma first goes into the water, but then changes his mind and returns to the shore.

Monkey Boy walks along the shore, looks at how to get an orange from the table, tries to get it with a stick, sorts through different sticks and eventually gets the treat.

Boy sits on the shore, on a branch, eating an orange.

The scientist puts a candy in a small but deep hole, measures the depth with a ruler (80 cm) and sits down on a chair nearby to observe.

Monkey Silva approaches the hole, looks, thinks, figures out what to do, how to get the candy.

Silva lies on the ground, then gets up, goes to the bushes, breaks off a branch and approaches the hole again.

Silva plucks leaves from the branch, sticks his eye into the hole, tries to hook the candy.

The scientist observes the chimpanzee's behavior, makes notes.

Silva eventually gets the treat and eats it with pleasure.

A new experiment - you need to get compote from a box.

Scientists are watching the experiment.

Monkey Taras approaches the box and tries to open it.

Taras finds a lever that opens the door of the box, but if you let go of it, the door closes.

Taras goes to a tree, breaks a branch and returns to the box again.

The chimpanzee tries to wedge the door of the box with the branch, pulling the lever with his other hand, but the branch breaks.

Taras goes to another tree, chooses a stronger, drier branch, breaks it off and returns to the box.

Taras tries to wedge the door again and finally succeeds.

The chimpanzee gets compote from the box and drinks it.

Evening, twilight, view of the lake.

Wind, tree branches swaying, panorama of monkeys in a clearing.

The monkeys sit huddled close to each other - hiding from the wind.

It starts to rain.

Monkeys and scientists in raincoats walk to a shelter under a large tree. - hiding from the rain.

Raindrops, view of the clearing from the shelter.

Evening, sky after rain, rainbow visible.

A female scientist walks with the monkeys, sits down in the clearing, examines them, measures their temperature.

The woman makes notes in a notebook.

The chimpanzees calmly allow their temperature to be measured.

Close-up - a hand writes down the thermometer readings in a notebook.

Forest after rain, drops on branches, sunbeams.

Firsov in a clearing, measuring the monkey's blood pressure.

Close-up - the scientist opens the monkey's mouth, examines the throat, teeth.

The female scientist takes blood from the chimpanzee's finger.

The chimpanzee licks her finger, examines the instrument for taking samples.

In the frame - the scientists' tent in the clearing, Firsov sits down at a camping table, studies the blood sample taken under a microscope, makes notes.

Monkeys in a tree, jump on branches, descend to the ground.

A female scientist sits on a chair in a clearing surrounded by monkeys.

The monkeys are given vitamins.

Scientists are walking through the forest.

A monkey jumps from tree to tree.

The frame shows stripped tree trunks - the monkeys are peeling off the bark and enjoying the cambium (the thinnest growth layer of the tree).

Scientists are watching chimpanzees eat the cambium, cut off the cambium layer, and taste it.

A monkey is walking through a clearing, angry, screaming.

The chimpanzees are climbing down from the tree, running, screaming, and getting nervous.

Close-up - a hare in the grass.

The chimpanzees are chasing the hare out of the clearing with a stick.

Evening, sunset, lake.

The chimpanzees are sitting on a tree branch, then jumping to the ground and walking away.

Sunset, red sun, crimson sky, view of the lake.

An experiment with a chimpanzee named Taras - the monkey is placed in a box with a net, given compote to try, then the compote is taken to a certain place, hidden, then the box with Taras is turned in the other direction for several hours, then the monkey is released into the wild.

As a result, Taras remembers where the female scientist put the compote and unmistakably finds that very place.

The chimpanzee Taras drinks compote.

A meadow, wild flowers, a butterfly lands on a flower.

A clearing, grass, yellow wild flowers.

A female scientist with a chimpanzee Taras in a clearing conducts another experiment.

The scientist shows the monkey different flowers and asks him to find the same ones.

Taras does everything correctly, and for this he gets a treat.

Another scientist photographs the experiment.

Taras chooses and shows flowers, the female scientist rewards him with a treat.

The monkey is happy, claps his hands.

In the frame there is a lake, a boat with people.

Chimpanzees run across the clearing, along the shore.

Scientists drag a large boulder to the shore, put a treat under it and watch what the monkeys will do.

A group of monkeys approaches the boulder, climbs on it, examines it, tries to move it.

The monkeys quarrel, shout, fight.

One of the monkeys tries to lift the boulder, but it does not work, the other monkeys walk nearby.

View of the shore, a boulder, the leader of the pack - a male Boy approaches the group of monkeys.

Boy tries to lift the boulder and in the end he succeeds.

The jar of compote is immediately taken by the monkey Gamma.

As a result, the compote is taken away from her, a scuffle ensues, etc.

The monkeys leave the clearing.

Clearing, members of the expedition (scientists) are sitting on chairs - watching the primates, a camera on a tripod is nearby.

One of the monkeys approaches the camera and the operator, examines the camera, twists the handles, curiously studies the unfamiliar object.

The cameraman lets the chimpanzee look into the lens.

The chimpanzee is at the camera, looking at another monkey sitting in a clearing.

In the frame is a monkey with a camera.

The chimpanzee is sitting on a folding camp chair.

The scientist is communicating with the chimpanzee, hugging, playing with it, Firsov is sitting next to him - photographing the process.

Firsov with a hand-held movie camera, chimpanzees are sitting next to him, hugging him.

The scientist is working, making notes, monkeys are sitting next to him.

Landscapes of the Pskov region, a view of the lake, an island.