Newly Released Rare Video Is The Last Known Footage of a Tasmanian Tiger
CARLY CASSELLA20 MAY 2020
In 1936, Benjamin, the last known thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus), died from exposure in an Australian zoo.
Only the year before, he was filmed for the long-forgotten travelogue Tasmania the Wonderland by the prolific Brisbane-based filmmaker Sidney Cook.
Today, just a few scenes of the film survive: a double-decker tram system, Hobart's Sandy Bay beach, the long gone Beaumaris Zoo, and one of Australia's most famous extinct predators, the species widely known as Tasmanian tigers.
Benjamin the Tasmanian tiger's moment of fame lasts for only 21 seconds, but in the grand scheme of things that's practically a gold mine. Before this discovery, humans had little more than three minutes of silent black-and-white footage of thylacines.
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By Michael Irving
May 19, 2020
A "new" video of the extinct Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine, has been discovered in a film archivePhotosVac/Depositphotos
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The Tasmanian tiger may be gone, but it’s not forgotten. New footage of the extinct marsupial has emerged from the vault of the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA), showing the last known member of the species in a dingy cage.
Clocking in at just 21 seconds, the new video shows a thylacine pacing around its cage in Beaumaris Zoo in Hobart, Tasmania. Two men can be seen rattling the cage on the right.
It’s believed that this clip is the last ever filmed of Benjamin, the last surviving Tasmanian tiger. The existing famous video of him was shot in December 1933, while the newly discovered clip dates to 1935. That places it just a year or so before poor Benjamin’s death in September 1936.
New" footage of extinct Tasmanian Tiger
The clip was taken from a travelogue titled Tasmania The Wonderland, which outlined some of the attractions of the island state for visitors. As the narrator makes clear, Benjamin was the only thylacine in captivity at the time, and the species was considered rare in the wild, but they likely didn’t realize that they had the very last one on their hands.
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