| This is the
earliest thylacine film known to exist. It was taken on 27
September 1911 by a Mr. Williamson at the Beaumaris Zoo (the name of which
was later changed to the Hobart Zoo when it was moved to the Domain
site). It depicts a thylacine feeding on a cut of meat, watched through
the enclosure fence by both its keeper and another individual which many
believe to be Mrs. Mary Grant Roberts, the owner of the zoo. At the
beginning of the sequence, a woman in a long black dress of the type that
Mrs. Roberts was known to have worn is visible to the far left.
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