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Screen capture video of twitter by NFSA -National Film and Sound Archive of Australia.
The last elusive thylacine held in captivity was named Benjamin, and can be seen walking through the grounds in the clip, filmed in Tasmania.
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The grain of the moving image of the last survivor of the tiger of Tasmania, or thylacine, 1935, has been published by the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA). The body preserved and digitized images in 4K and posted the news clip.
The last elusive thylacine held in captivity was named Benjamin, and can be seen walking through the grounds in the clip. The site is Beaumaris Zoo in Hobart, Tasmania, that was one of the only two places where the thylacines were photographed, according to the NFSA.
The clip has been extracted from a travelogue, Tasmania the Wonderland (1935), which is believed to have been filmed by the filmmaker Sidney Cook. The survivors of part of the travelogue (9 minutes) does not contain the end credits.
It is, probably, the most recent available clip of the extinct marsupials, such as the earlier of the date last confirmed thylacine footage dates back to December 1933.
The most recent video made public after 85 years, adding to the already existing “less than a dozen source of the movies”, that will amount to a “little more than three minutes of silent, black-and-white archive material.”
The rare footage, however, did the Twitterati emotional.
This makes me so sad. Those poor animals
— Doc_Carter (@carter_doc) May 19, 2020
That is horrible. The last living member of his species, nervously pacing a concrete floor of the cage which seems to be about 6 by 8 feet at the most. It was a disgusting thing to see. But good, thank you.
— Noisy Rhubarb (@epiphany1000) May 19, 2020
In all fairness, this is 85 years of age. If we knew then what we know now, it would be different. We should not blame anyone really. It is great to see the footage, but that is not the fault of the current generations.
— Scott Hayes (@sconesbie) May 19, 2020
The NFSA continues to remain optimistic of finding more footage of the Tasmanian tiger as the animal was maintained in captivity in several zoos and enclosures in Australia and overseas.
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