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Australian Animals
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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50 delightful surprises from the NFSA collection
Fifty surprising, heartwarming and weirdly wonderful items from the NFSA collection.
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NFSA Video Selfie Booth Now Open in Canberra
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 by Mark Franklin (The Oceania Project)
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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Australian Diary 39: Zoo Babies are Favourites at Taronga Park
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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The Trail of the ‘Roo: Kangaroo hunt
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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Commonwealth Bank - Willie Wombat: Willie's song (1939)
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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Dot and the Kangaroo: Being polite to a platypus (1977)
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: The food of understanding (1977)
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...
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Yindi: The Last Koala?: Bev and Bob Birtles
Presenter Greg Grainger visits the home of Bev and Bob Birtles. They are caring for Yindi after he was rescued from a bushfire and will eventually return him to the wild. Grainger then introduces us...
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