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Tagged: Australian animals
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Cute and cuddly, furry or feathered, slippery or scaly; our collection of Australian native animals - both real and imagined - will charm and delight you.
The following selection of films, sounds...
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Fifty surprising, heartwarming and weirdly wonderful items from the NFSA collection.
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The NFSA Video Selfie Booth is now open in the Front Room at Acton.
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Songlines: Songs of the East Australian Humpback Whales (1992–2008) features humpback whale song recordings taken off the coast of Eastern Australia during their cycle of migration between their...
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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...
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Situated in Mosman, on the north shore of Sydney, Taronga Park Zoo was officially opened on 7 October 1916.
This film, made by the National Film Board in 1950, shows off some of the cutest...
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Kangaroos are hunted in the bush to be collected for museums and zoos. A kangaroo hide is presented to the camera. Kangaroos hop into a fenced enclosure and are trapped there. Two men force a hat on...
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Willie Wombat was produced by Eric Porter – Australia’s first career animator – to promote the Commonwealth Savings Bank of Australia’s School Banking program. Willie lounges and plays while the...
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The kangaroo introduces Dot to Mr and Mrs Platypus, who are difficult to be polite to, because they are easy to offend. Mr Platypus (voiced by Spike Milligan) gives Dot a history lesson. Mrs Platypus...
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Dot and the Kangaroo (1977), based on a children’s book by an English writer, Ethel Pedley, was the just the second animated feature film made in Australia.
In this clip Dot (voiced by Barbara...