FILM AUSTRALIA COLLECTION

Title Details

Ten Million Wildcats

Australia's unique wildlife is under threat from a dangerously efficient predator Ð the domestic cat gone wild.
Year : 2000 | Total Duration : 50 Minutes | Producer : Gary Steer, Tina Dalton-Hagege
Director : Gary Steer, Alice Ford |
MS full moon at night with thin dark cloud scudding across to obscure moon.
Access No. 128439 | 5 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Two glowing circles in night darkness towards camera revealed as being cat's eyes.
Access No. 128442 | 9 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MCUs of cat's feet walking over ground at night, leaping on ground, walking , and looking up at camera
Access No. 128443 | 5 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CUs cat silhouetted against golden orange and purple sunset sky walking along ground and climbing tree.
Access No. 128444 | 12 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CUs feral cat prowling around rocks and LS cat in silhouette leaping from one rock to another with deepening blue sky and moon in background.
Access No. 128445 | 8 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS woman grooming white persian show cat. CUs exotic longhair breeds of cats being cuddled and kissed by owners. Cus of variety of breeds of cats and kittens. ECUs to eyes.
Access No. 128446 | 32 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MCU car driving away leaving a box on the ground. CUs older kittens emerging from box and walking through bush. CUs potoroos in bush. Cat in stalking mode.
Access No. 128447 | 18 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Zoom to white cat walking through field of long grass. Tilt down forest with sunlight streaming in to white cat amongst ferns on forest floor. CU white cat sharpening claws on log then leaping away.
Access No. 128448 | 19 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS Tim Flannery from South Australian Museum speaking about feral cats pointing to anatomical model to make points.
Access No. 128449 | 1 min 26 secs | 2000s | SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
White cat walking over mossy green rock and VS prowling amongst ferns and rocks. VS white cat hunting and attacking mouse in leaf litter. Cat carries mouse prey in mouth.
Access No. 128450 | 1 min 26 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS feral tabby looking towards camera at night then walking away. Cat chasing stick nest rat.
Access No. 128451 | 6 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU brush-tailed bettong looking towards camera at night. MS plains rats moving on ground. MS brush-tail bettong. Very good ECUs bilby foraging at night. GS numbat climbing down tree. CUs mala and stick nest rat foraging at night.
Access No. 128453 | 48 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Ws 4WD driving towards camera along red dirt road along rabbit-proof fence. Biologist John Read walking towards feral cat in cage. VS cat.
Access No. 128471 | 23 secs | 2000s | Roxby Downs, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
John Read weighing dead feral cat then CUs of removing contents from cat's stomach, lining up four hopping mice, dragons, and red-capped robin from stomach. Read showing B/W photograph of dead cat with stomach contents lined up including dozens of painted dragons.
Access No. 128472 | 55 secs | 2000s | Roxby Downs, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS feral cat walking on forest floor. CU willie wagtail eggs in mud nest and MS bird coming to sit on nest. Cat climbing tree towards nest with wagtails attacking.
Access No. 128473 | 29 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
GS feral cat at night on sandy ground leaping and catching large moth, half playing with it. CU moth. CU dark cat's face half hidden behind rock. Cat lurking amongst rocks on beach. GS cat in grass looking towards camera. GS cat in rural tip. VS feral cats and kittens in bush. CU cat cleaning itself.
Access No. 128474 | 1 min 2 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
WS aerial of the outback with scattered trees.
Access No. 128475 | 5 secs | 2000s | Australia | © Wild Visuals | Colour |
MS feral tabby cat. MS biologist Rachel Paltridge. Cat walking through outback bush in heat haze. WS arid red dirt desert landscape. GS ginger feral cat curled up asleep in timber nest. Cat walking and running in desert with zoom out to vast low tufted desert landscape losing sight of cat.
Access No. 128476 | 49 secs | 2000s | Central Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Headlights of 4WD at night and GS drivers. Kangaroo bounding away from camera at night spotlit by car headlights. VS feral cat at night being flushed out by dog and shot. Dead cat being taken to 4WD and hung off bumper bar and driven off.
Access No. 128509 | 1 min 5 secs | 2000s | Roxby Downs, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
VS researcher and Ecologist Liz Denny walking around rural tip and weighing feral cat trapped in cage then releasing. MS interview and track of young cat bounding away from cage. VS feral cat walking over and around large boulders.
Access No. 128510 | 1 min 18 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
VS biologist Paul Wagner unloading trapping cages from truck and MS being interviewed.
Access No. 128511 | 22 secs | 2000s | Australia | © Wild Visuals | Colour |
LS fox running through wetlands.
Access No. 128512 | 2 secs | 2000s | Australia | © Lionel Hudson | Colour |
Archival footage of camel trekking across desert and GS old combine harvester powered by draught horses ploughing field.
Access No. 128513 | 5 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU shimmering water in golden sunset and old style ship sailing in golden sunset light. CUs cat onboard ship and around ropes. GS cat running up white sand and small dune and GS cat walking on dune.
Access No. 128514 | 33 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU oar in shimmering water in golden sunset and MS Indonesian boat being paddled.
Access No. 128515 | 7 secs | 2000s | Australia | © Wild Visuals | Colour |
CU painting of Indonesians trading.
Access No. 128516 | 7 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Slow pan across dumped cars and red dirt road in desert landscape and CU feral cat trapped in cage.
Access No. 128517 | 13 secs | 2000s | Australia | © Wild Visuals | Colour |
CU B/W cat looking at camera, ECU sandy coloured longer haired cat in cage and GS ginger cat camouflaged amongst reddish rocks.
Access No. 128518 | 14 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU Paul Wagner's face as he bends down and VS of him setting up cages and laying food baits. GS black cat looking towards camera. Pan across landscape in late afternoon light. WS moon in peach coloured sunset sky with tree in foreground. WS gold coloured full moon in black night sky.
Access No. 128520 | 1 min 42 secs | 2000s | Australia | © Wild Visuals | Colour |
VS Paul Wagner examining feral cat trapped in cage and track of various cats in cages. CU salt being poured on cat carcass and CUs being rubbed in. CU rolling cat's pelt.
Access No. 128521 | 1 min 42 secs | 2000s | Australia | © Wild Visuals | Colour |
CUs test tubes containing blood being removed and opened with ECU of experiments with blood and dye being placed on small slides. CU interview with Paul Wagner.
Access No. 128522 | 38 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS feral tabby cat sitting on red dirt. MS cat walking through grass in rocky terrain and MS pale coloured cat emerging from small cave in red rocks. CUs pale cat. WS tabby moving through pale long grass in desert landscape and MS of tabby running. CU pale cat well camouflaged in long pale grass and MS tabby climbing grey tree.
Access No. 128523 | 43 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Very good ECU of feral tabby cat's face. WS pan across desert landscape to feral tabby cat lying on rocky hill in foreground.
Access No. 128524 | 14 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS interview with ecologist Liz Denny with tip in background.
Access No. 128525 | 6 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
B/W archival footage of horse and rider wading through river and old fashioned horse and cart.
Access No. 128526 | 5 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
B/W archival footage of horse and cart riding through field. MS horse-drawn timber wagon, CU horses being saddled and cattle being herded through gate. MS footage of camel train pulling cart. GS dog trotting alongside timber train.
Access No. 128527 | 18 secs | 2000s | Qld, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
B/W archival of drover herding cattle on slope and quick shots of pig near trough, girl feeding chickens and woman feeding ducks.
Access No. 128528 | 3 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
B/W archival footage of turkeys. GS boy giving cat a bowl of milk in backyard, CU cat eating from bowl.
Access No. 128529 | 9 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
B/W archival footage of CU sheep being led through street in parade, children in horse-drawn cart and CU basket of kittens all in parade. Pan of rural houses.
Access No. 128530 | 10 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
High pan over lush green farms of Kangaroo Valley. GS cat running through farm and GS B/W cattle near dam. Good CU young cat washing itself. GS large group of cats eating from bowl in bush undergrowth. Very good CU track of young cat walking along top of timber fence and VS cat with white horse in corral.
Access No. 128531 | 43 secs | 2000s | Kangaroo Valley, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS cats inside barn at night and CUs cat leaping at mouse. VS cat attacking mouse on barn floor with CUs of mouse. High shot colony of cats in barn. Scenic WS with trees and cherry blossom in foreground and mountains in distance. ECUs of blossoms with bee, Willie wagtail in tree and wind blowing blossom petals.
Access No. 128532 | 34 secs | 2000s | Kangaroo Valley, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
White cat against green grass. VS white cat walking around bales of hay in barn. MS silvery full moon in black night sky. ECUs cat in labour and licking itself. ECUs amniotic sac and kittens being born and licked. VS kittens suckling. VS white cat with six week old kittens venturing outside in long grass. VS kitten lost in long grass and MS wedge-tailed eagle in tree then in slow flight over grass. CU green eyes of cat.
Access No. 128533 | 3 mins 38 secs | 2000s | Kangaroo Valley, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
White cat with kittens in long grass and CUs of cat catching mouse and CU of her eating it. VS tabby cat suckling kittens. GS young cats hissing and fighting. Tilt to galah in tree and MS pair of Willie- wagtails on branch. GS tabby cat in long green grass. CU potoroo on forest floor. VS cat prowling.
Access No. 128534 | 1 min 59 secs | 2000s | Kangaroo Valley, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
VS mice scavenging around garbage tip at night and cat prowling.
Access No. 128535 | 13 secs | 2000s | Australia | © Wild Visuals | Colour |
Archival footage of men bailing hay with pitchforks and combine harvesters in field of wheat.
Access No. 128536 | 6 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Good CU of mouse in nest and slow-motion rabbit running through grass away from camera.
Access No. 128537 | 14 secs | 2000s | Australia | © Wild Visuals | Colour |
High angle footage of rabbit plague with rabbits running away from camera across barren red fenced ground.
Access No. 128538 | 8 secs | 2000s | Australia | © CSIRO | Colour |
Two archival shots of steam trains along tracks towards and past camera.
Access No. 128539 | 9 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
GS several rabbits running on dry grass amongst rocks.
Access No. 128540 | 3 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Time-lapse clouds with bare silhouetted tree in foreground.
Access No. 128541 | 21 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
WS lightning in night sky. CU gushing brown water and GS flooding river. Aerial of river meeting see with sunset tones reflected on sea. High tracking shot of red outback landscape with tufts of green grass.
Access No. 128542 | 19 secs | 2000s | Australia | © Wild Visuals | Colour |
VS mouse plague with mice swarming on ground and around grain.
Access No. 128543 | 14 secs | 2000s | Australia | © Nine Network Australia | Colour |
Good MS time-lapse billowing white clouds in blue sky. Feral cat perched in stick nest high in tree. WS North American landscape with cacti in foreground and mountain range in distance. GS cat in suburban backyard.
Access No. 128544 | 26 secs | 2000s | Australia; USA | © NFSA | Colour |
CU coyote face and MS tabby cat. Cat moving along ground and coyote moving amongst low trees. CU cat's face through long grass and face of coyote looking towards camera.
Access No. 128545 | 19 secs | 2000s | USA | © NFSA | Colour |
CUs skunk foraging on ground and CUs bobcat. MS mouse running under cactus. CU cat stalking. CUs of pack rat and CUs of cat. Good CU of cat's eyes. Slow-motion sequence of pack rat fleeing and cat in pursuit. MS pack rat running under cactus and MCU of cat's face as seen from under cactus. ECU of cat's paw prodding under cactus and high shot of cat walking away amongst cacti.
Access No. 128546 | 56 secs | 2000s | USA | © NFSA | Colour |
WS desert landscape. GS cat climbing along red desert boulders. Pintubi Aboriginal women tracking cats in desert. Good CUs of bare feet on red dirt away from camera. VS women clubbing cat with stick then carrying dead cat away by tail. Night shot of campfire with woman cooking cat in flames. VS biologist Rachel Paltridge with women and VS watching them cut up cat and chop with axe
Access No. 128547 | 1 min 43 secs | 2000s | Tanami Desert, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
WS 4WD driving through grassy desert landscape with biologist Rachel Paltridge perched on bonnet. Camera tracking Paltridge and Aboriginal woman chasing feral cat through long pale desert grass. High shot of cat running through grass and MS women waiting with net. VS Aboriginal woman running through scrub then trapping exhausted cat. CUs placing radio collar on cat and releasing dazed cat.
Access No. 128548 | 1 min 49 secs | 2000s | Tanami Desert, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Tilt down from blue sky to WS desert landscape with pale grasses between sporadic trees and women walking with antennae. MCU antennae and Aboriginal women inspecting prints in red sand. CU feral cat walking towards camera and WS across desert. High shot cat walking through long grass and CU peering between blades of spinifex grass. VS cats around rocky outcrops. CU cat sleeping.
Access No. 128549 | 1 min 23 secs | 2000s | Tanami Desert, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
WS dusk with silvery clouds across blue sky and bare silhouetted trees in foreground. MS silhouetted cat walking in profile over rocks and sharpening claws on tree bough. Striped grey feral cat hunting at night. CU frog on ground and GS cat pouncing.
Access No. 128550 | 36 secs | 2000s | Tanami Desert, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS cat in tree and CU to Red-backed Kingfisher on branch then flying into mud hole nest in embankment. GS feral cat walking along ground and standing on hind legs probing nest with arm for kingfisher young. MS dingo through pale desert grass. VS lizards, skinks, and monitors. VS feral cat chasing and catching skink and eating it.
Access No. 128551 | 1 min 12 secs | 2000s | Tanami Desert, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Footage of black cat emerging from bush with struggling rabbit in its mouth.
Access No. 128552 | 5 secs | 2000s | Australia | © CSIRO | Colour |
MS white cat sitting with mouse dangling from its mouth and CU of tabby feral with lizard in mouth. Interview with Tim Flannery.
Access No. 128553 | 16 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
WS sooty terns colony over offshore island. ECU s terns sitting on eggs and feeding chicks. MS feral cat walking on sand. CU tern chick walking and flapping wings.
Access No. 128554 | 21 secs | 2000s | Qld, Australia | © Wild Visuals | Colour |
MS interview with Tim Flannery. Young cat walking through forest undergrowth at night towards camera.
Access No. 128555 | 10 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Very good CU of Spotted-tail quoll eating kangaroo carcass at night and GS of same and very good CU of quoll's face looking straight at camera.
Access No. 128556 | 18 secs | 2000s | Tas, Australia | © Wild Visuals | Colour |
MS pale striped cat climbing down tree trunk in lush forest. CUs cat walking through forest. CU of paws over leaves.
Access No. 128557 | 20 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival B/W footage of man chopping tree and land clearing using ball and chains.
Access No. 128558 | 10 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival B/W footage of aerial track over sheep herding. GS and CUs of sheep being herded by drover on horseback cracking whip.
Access No. 128559 | 17 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival footage of rabbit in profile looking out from burrow and VS land erosion, burrows and rabbits.
Access No. 128560 | 7 secs | 2000s | Australia | © Wild Visuals | Colour |
CUs numbats in family groups and singly mainly foraging and in burrows.
Access No. 128561 | 8 secs | 2000s | Australia | © Wildfilm Australia | Colour |
GS fox scavenging.
Access No. 128562 | 3 secs | 2000s | Australia | © CSIRO | Colour |
Outback tracking shot over barren damaged ground.
Access No. 128563 | 4 secs | 2000s | Australia | © Wild Visuals | Colour |
WS outback landscape with rainbow over horizon and biologist Rachel Paltridge walking in foreground with Aboriginal women. CU raindrops on pond and high angle MS rain on pools of water in rock faces. WS rocky bushland in rain and CUs purple wildflowers.
Access No. 128564 | 26 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Aerials over reddish outback plains and over kangaroos slow-motion bounding. High aerial over camel pack with shadows over arid ground. CU camel hoofs on bare ground. Good CU of bilby at night looking towards camera and ECU of mulgara (crest-tailed marsupial mouse)eating. MS bilby foraging around grass.
Access No. 128565 | 20 secs | 2000s | Australia | © Wild Visuals | Colour |
GS stick nest rat moving along ground at night and CU of it eating plant with good CU of face and eating on its hind legs holding plant in hands. VS pair of stick nest rats at night. GS cat bounding across ground at night and MS walking towards camera with eyes reflecting light.
Access No. 128566 | 41 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS zebra finches drinking from waterhole and GS pools of water in rocky territory. High angle shot of feral cat amongst rocks with tilt to orange coloured escarpment. MS cat rubbing and rolling herself on rocks . Sequence of mating with large pale male cat and VS camera tracking both cats as female pursues male.
Access No. 128567 | 2 mins 8 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Good CUs bilby foraging and hopping about at night. Bilby with young moving about at night. Bilby digging burrow and entering tunnel with young. ECU bilby inside burrow.
Access No. 128568 | 29 secs | 2000s | Australia | © Wild Visuals | Colour |
MS interview with Paul Wagner.
Access No. 128569 | 12 secs | 2000s | Australia | © Wild Visuals | Colour |
VS Don Langford and Sandy Japangardi of the Mala Recovery Team walking next to cat-proof fence towards camera in Tanami Desert. High angle shots of mala grazing at night. Sandy Japangardi and two other Aboriginal men holding mala by tail and chanting before releasing into night. VS Langford and team collecting mala for relocation. Good CUs
Access No. 128570 | 1 min 57 secs | 2000s | Tanami Desert, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Aerial track over Peron Peninsula showing coastline, white sand and red inland desert dirt roads. GS David Algar standing by car on red dirt road talking and pointing to map. MS electric fence. Pan of scrub and beach in background.
Access No. 128571 | 1 min 8 secs | 2000s | Peron Peninsula, WA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CUs people tending minced meat for cat baits in industrial mixers with sausages being extruded and hung on racks. MS sausages being injected with poison. GS man dropping meat baits from aeroplane. Air to air of small aircraft. CU Dave Algar talking to camera.
Access No. 128572 | 1 min 4 secs | 2000s | WA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
GS 4WD vehicles being driven along road towards camera. MS plane on red dirt runway being loaded with caged malas. Good shots of plane taking off and CU nose of plane as it lifts off.
Access No. 128573 | 30 secs | 2000s | WA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS interview with Tim Flannery. GS dingo harassing feral cat spotlight at night.
Access No. 128574 | 16 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Brief shot of fox running fast.
Access No. 128575 | 2 secs | 2000s | Australia | © Lionel Hudson | Colour |
MS rabbit plague.
Access No. 128576 | 3 secs | 2000s | Australia | © CSIRO | Colour |
Low angle looking up to tall forest trees with spiral motion. Good CUs Eastern Quoll, Cus Cus, Tasmanian Devil, Spectacled Hare Wallaby.
Access No. 128577 | 17 secs | 2000s | Australia | © Wild Visuals | Colour |
Archival B/W footage of logging with horse-drawn wagon hauling huge log and open train transporting logs from forest.
Access No. 128578 | 11 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
GS feral cat running through long green grass.
Access No. 128579 | 4 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS interview with Paul Wagner
Access No. 128580 | 3 secs | 2000s | Australia | © Wild Visuals | Colour |
GS wild pigs drinking from waterhole. ECU of feral cat's face. Track of red dirt road through outback desert POV driver. MS fox running near roadside.
Access No. 128581 | 14 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS interview with Tim Flannery. CU man injecting sausages with poison and tilt up to CU of older man's bespectacled face. VS man dropping baits from aircraft. Low angle shot of car travelling over grate in outback and CU of speaker beside road.
Access No. 128582 | 24 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS pair of Tasmanian Devils attacking kangaroo carcass at night.
Access No. 128583 | 20 secs | 2000s | Tas, Australia | © Wild Visuals | Colour |
MS interview with Tim Flannery. MS men releasing mala from sack at night. CUs mala at night. VS Liz Denny walking around large rubbish tip. VS cat running around tip and slow-motion of cat running after being released from cage. MS tip-truck dumping dirt onto mound.
Access No. 128584 | 56 secs | 2000s | Australia | © Wild Visuals | Colour |
MS car driving past camera and CUs person dumping cardboard box in bush and walking away. VS pair of cats emerging from box and stalking along ground through grass.
Access No. 128585 | 45 secs | 2000s | Australia | © Wild Visuals | Colour |