Lizard 1940

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Lizard.

Queensland, Australia.

The camera pans up a tree to a bird's nest. Various shots of the baby hawk sat in it. Various shots of a goanna lizard crawling up the tree towards the nest. The hawk's father comes to save him and swoops down on the lizard carrying it away.

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Cataloguer:
Emma
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
42840
Sort Number:
NSP 204
Time in/Out:
01:14:54:00 / 01:15:45:00
Canister:
NSP 204
Film ID:
1286.12
Issue Date:
29/02/1940

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0:010:020:030:04

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