FILM 2:  Made at the beginning of 1928, this is the oldest known of the Hobart Zoo films taken at the Domain site (the site to which the Beaumaris Zoo was relocated by the Hobart City Council and renamed Hobart Zoo after the death of founder Mary G. Roberts in 1921).  With their keeper visible in the background, this film is the only one which shows a group of three thylacines interacting.  The adult female (with visibly distended pouch) arrived at the zoo with two semi-independent young.  Sadly, she and both of her cubs died of an unspecified disease shortly after this film was made.  Incidentally, the two juveniles shown in the film are not directly related to her.  The sequence concludes with the animals being ushered into their night pen.
 

FILM 3:  This sequence was also taken in 1928 at the Hobart Zoo, but several months later than film 2.  It features some very good close-up views of a young adult thylacine's face.  In the last scene of this film, a thylacine (which may possibly be the same animal) settles into a resting posture against the enclosure's fence.
 

FILM 4:  This film sequence was taken at the same time as film 3 (1928), and depicts the same individual.  Here, this thylacine can be observed interacting with its keeper, who is standing on the other side of the fence.  The motions made by the animal do not appear to be indicative of aggression, and it seems to be playing with the keeper as he moves his hand along the fence.  In several instances during the film, the thylacine rears up on its hindlegs, in a kangaroo-like stance.  Throughout the sequence the animal appears to move swiftly and to be extremely responsive to the hand movements of its keeper.
 

FILM 5:  Naturalist David Fleay made this film at the Hobart Zoo in 1933, which is the last known motion picture footage taken of a living thylacine.  The particular animal shown is very likely to be the last known captive.  It is shown both at rest and also moving around its enclosure.  In two instances, the animal displays the great extent to which it can open its jaws.  Dr. Fleay stated in both his diary and an article for National Geographic magazine (Fleay 1963) that this individual was a male.  Since there is no obvious evidence of maleness, this has led some to believe that this animal was actually a female.  However, it seems highly unlikely that such an eminent zoologist as Dr. Fleay would have made an error over the sexing of the animal.
 

FILM 6:  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 13 September 1919.  The thylacine shown in the EB film however, was filmed at the London Zoo at some point prior to 1931, when the last thylacine at the 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 are now held in the zoology collection of the Oxford University Museum (Source: ITSD 2005).
 

FILM 7:  This very short piece which depicts a thylacine feeding on a rabbit is from a circa 1930 film taken by David Seth-Smith of animals at the London Zoo.  This individual is a female, and was the last captive thylacine outside of Australia.  She was on display at the London Zoo from 26 January 1926 until her death on 9 August 1931.