I think one of the guys in the second photo is named Eric Hunt.

As for the 3rd photo, Isn’t that the Coelacanth from the American Museum of Natural history?

I’m gonna take a shot and say the fourth is professor JLB Smith.

And I’m pretty sure that the movie is called “Monster on Campus”.

I dunno about the EC, though.

#2. Professor J.L.B.(James Leonard Brierley) Smith kneling in front of the fish, Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer sent a sketch of the coelacanth, to J.L.B. Smith of Rhodes University to have it identified.

#3. American Museum of Natural History staff members with the 1st coelacanth, the fish came in 1962.

#4. William Smith?

#5. 1958 Monster on the Campus, a coelacanth.

#6. Ahamadi Abdallah (Ahmed Hussein) and Souha.

According to a article the Coelacanth was caught by a side-trawler called Vega 13. A Japanese/mozambique joint venture fishing operation (source).

Captain of the ship Kenji Yoshida (Japanese name) immediately recognized it and put in a onboard freezer. The next day at port A.J.P. Cabral (Caucasian probably) from Museum of Natural History in Maputo, Mozambique collected the speciman.

Since there was no freezer or preservation chemicals available, Cabral instructed his assistant Augustinho Chivindze (mozambique name) to skin the specimen for mounting.

By reasons of deductions….

The fish is not in the freezer. The guy on the right doesn’t look like a Fisherman from his white clean clothing. (more like a butcher/taxidermist coat) The fish looks thawed out and ready for skinning? (or already gutted?) Appears to be (non-fish) animal carcasses in the background.

So I say its a picture of Augustinho Chivindze (probably on the right) and a assistant or helper.

2. Eric Hunt, James Leonard Briery Smith, and Governor Pierre Coudert after the 1952 Comoros find.

3. Hrm… Guy on the left is probably Bobb Schaeffer, since he was head of the vertebrate paleontology program at the American Museum of Natural History at the time they received this fish. No idea who the fella rocking the beatnik beard is, though.

4. Complete mystery to me. Who IS that smiling, gloved man? It’s driving me a bit mad…

5. ‘Monster on THE Campus’, rest of the info as stated by ‘Boxerpit’ above. You’re a strict one, Mr. Coleman.

6. (extra credit) – I think that would be Ahamadi Abdallah (also called ‘Ahmed Hussein’ in some early reports) and his assistant Souha who caught the 1952 Comoran coelacanth.

Incidentally, it’s depressing how many links to creation-science websites are opened up by a Google search for the term ‘Coelacanth’. My brain feels like it’s been coated with a light layer of fuzz after skimming over a few of them.