Natural History Series: Egg Laying Mammals
Natural History Series: Egg Laying Mammals
1939
- NFSA ID50R2P5TH
- TypeFilm
- MediumMoving Image
- FormHome movie, Documentary
- Year1939
Amateur documentary apparently sourced from a large collection of mostly kodachrome colour home movies. Basic format is the introduction of a particular animal with 'natural habitat' and 'pose for the camera' shots. Animals shown include: Platypus, Spiny Ant Eater (Echidna) and baby, Bats, Tasmanian Tiger (Thylacine) and Tasmanaina Devil, Spotted Quoll, Tiger cat, Pygmy Possum, Kangaroos and Wallabies, (including an albino wallaby), Possums, Wombat, Gunn's Bandicoot, Sminthopsis (Dunnart Mouse), Seals, Dolphins. Also includes footage of people digging for the remains of prehistoric animals, possibly dinosaurs. General note: Thylacine footage is black & white and appears to comprise two short fragments : the first shows a female with two juveniles (apparently shot early 1928 at Beaumaris Zoo, Hobart). The second fragment appears to show 'Benjamin', the 'last Tasmanian Tiger' also shot at Beaumaris Zoo, but in December 1933 by David Fleay.
Amateur documentary apparently sourced from a large collection of mostly kodachrome colour home movies. Basic format is the introduction of a particular animal with 'natural habitat' and 'pose for the camera' shots. Animals shown include: Platypus, Spiny Ant Eater (Echidna) and baby, Bats, Tasmanian Tiger (Thylacine) and Tasmanaina Devil, Spotted Quoll, Tiger cat, Pygmy Possum, Kangaroos and Wallabies, (including an albino wallaby), Possums, Wombat, Gunn's Bandicoot, Sminthopsis (Dunnart Mouse), Seals, Dolphins. Also includes footage of people digging for the remains of prehistoric animals, possibly dinosaurs. General note: Thylacine footage is black & white and appears to comprise two short fragments : the first shows a female with two juveniles (apparently shot early 1928 at Beaumaris Zoo, Hobart). The second fragment appears to show 'Benjamin', the 'last Tasmanian Tiger' also shot at Beaumaris Zoo, but in December 1933 by David Fleay.
- NFSA ID50R2P5TH
- TypeFilm
- MediumMoving Image
- FormHome movie, Documentary
- Year1939
- FilmmakerHerbert John King
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