THE
THYLACINE IN CAPTIVITY: -
THE HISTORICAL THYLACINE FILMS -
(film 6)
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This sequence
of thylacine footage is part of a film entitled "Animals
of the Zoo" made by EB (Encyclopaedia Britannica) films
in conjunction with the New York Zoological Society. The 10 minute
film shows a broad selection of the animals at the Bronx Zoo in New York
and has a period commentary. The film was made in 1933, some 14 years
after the zoo's last thylacine died on 13th September 1919. The thylacine
shown in the EB film however, was filmed at the London Zoo in 1930,
one year before the last thylacine at that zoo died. The animal is
observed at close quarters tearing meat from a bone against the backdrop
of its brick enclosure in the zoo's North Mammal House. Its
remains (head only - specimen OUM 7942) are now held in the zoology collection
of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Source: International
Thylacine Specimen Database, 5th revision, 2013). At least one other
edit of this film exists, in which the introductory sequence is a few seconds
longer.
