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Tasmanian countryside, Hobart and Tasmanian Tiger (c1932) - Clip 1: Women walking along the beach January 28, 2008 Three women walk along the shoreline of an isolated beach. They then cartwheel across the sand. The same women are shown later on, wearing different clothes, walking through scrub along a fence line. They climb over the fence.

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Efftee Studio opening in Melbourne: Speech by Frank Forde (1931) - Clip 1: Efftee Studios’s opening speech January 28, 2008 Standing in front of his desk, Minister for Trade and Customs, Frank Forde, directly addresses the camera in a speech running over three minutes. The speech makes mention of: a new era in Australian industries; greater opportunities for production in Australia; high standards of production; the ...

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Empire Day Pageant (c1915) - Clip 1: Empire Day pageant January 28, 2008 The camera captures a group on a horse and carriage; a woman dressed as Queen Victoria; and various groups of children dressed in costumes. Costumes include dressing up as Indians; Red Cross volunteers and Australian Troops; Chinese women; and band members in ‘black face’. A small group of ...

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Wheat Harvesting with Reaper and Binder at Jimbour, Qld (1899) - Clip 1: Wheat harvesting with a mechanical reaper November 25, 2007 This silent actuality footage was taken by the official photographer of the Queensland Department of Agriculture, Frederick Charles Wills, and his assistant Henry William Mobsby in 1899, and shows a horse-drawn Buckeye brand reaper and binder harvesting a wheat crop while labourers stack the ...

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Voice of a Nation (c1918) - Clip 1: Street parade November 25, 2007 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, yawning, lying in the sun, and sitting quietly.