Uploaded September 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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The NFSA has released colourised footage of the last known surviving Tasmanian tiger - or Thylacine - for National Threatened Species Day. Read more about how this black and white footage has been given a new life. https://www.nfsa.gov.au/latest/colourised-footage-last-tasmanian-tiger

Original 35mm nitrate negative film shot by naturalist David Fleay at Beaumaris Zoo, Hobart in December 1933.
Colourised by Samuel François-Steininger at the Paris-based, Composite Films, from a scan of the negative by the National Film and Sound Archive Australia.