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Tagged: native animals

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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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Orphan of the Wilderness: Chut's Revenge
Shorty McGee (Harry Abdy) has punished his prize attraction, Chut the boxing kangaroo, by denying him water for two days. In the ring, Chut’s thirst and his hatred for the whip-wielding McGee boil...
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The Tasmanian Tiger
This documentary – a partly-dramatised look at Tasmania’s animals and birds – is a good example of innovative documentary making in the early 1960s. Summary by Damien Parer.
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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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Tasmanian countryside: Women walking along the beach
Black-and-white actuality footage of three women walk along the shoreline of an unknown isolated beach. They then cartwheel across the sand. The same women are shown later on, wearing different...
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Orphan of the Wilderness: Bondi bush baby
Chut explores his forest world, hopping about madly, as his mother keeps a watchful eye. He encounters many strange things – a koala moving from one tree to another and a bossy emu that chases him,...
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Orphan of the Wilderness: Joey in pants
Hunters have killed Chut’s mother and scattered his mob. Desperate for food, Chut arrives at the Henton farm, where Mrs Henton (Ethel Saker) spots him at the gate. Tom Henton (Brian Abbot) fixes the...
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Tasmanian Devil from 'Feral Peril'
A production still of a Tasmanian Devil from the documentary Feral Peril about the threat feral foxes are posing to the native animals of Tasmania, one of the world's last great wildlife havens.
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