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Samuel François-Steininger has colourised footage from the NFSA collection of the last Tasmanian Tiger in captivity.

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Mama Alto, the jazz singer, cabaret artiste and 'gender transcendent diva', sings the Roberta Flack classic 'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face' on ABC Radio's Live at the Centre.&n

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As part of our Newscaf series, we bring you some notable Christmas light displays, from Toowoomba to Tasmania.

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Located within a forgotten travelogue, Tasmania the Wonderland (1935), this recently digitised footage represents the preservation of the last-known surviving moving images of the now exti

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The NFSA has digitised in 4K a 21-second newsreel clip from 1935 featuring the last-known images of the extinct thylacine.

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Explore the sights of beautiful Hobart, nestled in-between Mount Wellington (kunanyi) and the River Derwent (timtumili minanya) in Tasmania.

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This beautifully filmed home movie contains some of the earliest examples of home movie footage held by the National Film and Sound Archive.

Summary by Poppy De Souza

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This footage opens with scenes of a family  picnic at Mt Wellington, Hobart, in 1909, and then documents  family  events such as Christmas (1922), childrens' birthday parties, toy ca

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A trip by the Tasmanian Sea Fisheries' Board patrol boat 'Allara', and its skipper, Tom Challenger, from Hobart to Storm Bay where a barracouta fishing fleet are at work.

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The Australian Gazette was typical of multi-part silent newsreels, with a mix of serious and lighter news coverage, that kept people at home informed during the First World War.