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Hobart 1932: Thylacine
This clip captures images of the Tasmanian tiger, alone in its enclosure at Beaumaris Zoo in Hobart. The thylacine is shown in close-up investigating the camera, pacing up and down its small cage,...
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Cockatoo Circus: Melbourne Exhibition Building and Aquarium
Performing cockatoos, the Melbourne Exhibition Building (now the Royal Exhibition Building) and Australia's first aquarium feature in this Cine Service production from 1949. Australian stockman Peter...
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Wirth's Circus: Behind the Big Top
The film begins with Wirth's famous circus elephants being dressed in their costume rugs. This is followed by a menagerie of animals: horses, ponies, zebras, more elephants and a caged lion. The...
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Wirth's Circus Film: Philip Wirth and Earl Dudley
A fixed camera positioned on the edge of an outdoor arena captures ringmaster and circus proprietor Philip Wirth rehearsing with his trick pony, Earl Dudley. The pony is led around the arena on a...
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Behind the Big Top: Inside the sawdust arena
The procession of performers and circus acts passes by the camera to enter the big top arena including horses, clowns and elephants. Some of the acts are filmed including a female lion tamer, a...
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The Circus Comes To Town: The Circus Parade
The members of Wirth’s Circus and Zoo parade down the main street as a large crowd looks on. The parade includes elephants, clowns, performers on horseback and caged animals. In another shot,...
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Behind The Big Top
Wirth's Circus arrives at Geelong and prepares for a performance. The footage shows the circus being transported on train carriages and then being hauled by elephants along the main street, past the...
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Tasmanian Tiger Footage
This clip captures images of the Tasmanian tiger, alone in its enclosure at Beaumaris Zoo in Hobart. The thylacine is shown in close-up investigating the camera, pacing up and down its small cage,...
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Australasian Gazette: Sheep Dog Trial
A largely static wide shot of a typical Australian showground captures a sheepdog trainer and his sheepdog herding three sheep into a pen. Summary by Elizabeth Taggart-Speers.
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Family Antics (1945)
A father, his son, and three fox terriers do acrobatics and balancing acts for the camera.Wanting to relax with an afternoon beer, a man is hounded by his energetic son Trevor to play in the backyard...
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