I can't save the video to transcribe the soundtrack as an MP3 but I have transcribed it as text:
I would like to introduce my Grandfather, Mr. Neil McCulloch. he is going to tell us about when he first saw the last-reported thylacine:
My name in Neil Stuart McCulloch. I was born in Bartaba? Boat Harbour? in 1920, therefore I am now ninety years of age. My grandfather, the late James Harrison, lived in Wynyard; he had his own private zoo, consisting of a large block of ground on which he kept kangaroos and wallabies etc. He also had a good set of cages, in which wombats, devils, native cats and other animals were housed. Also, there was a platypus-pool, specially made to keep platypus in; and they were fed on worms and local boys were encouraged to bring the worms along in tins and they were paid sixpence a tin, I think, as far as I can remember.
Now he also had big cages with eagles in them, white hawks, owls, cockatoos [edit] He did not keep them for himself permanently but usually they were passed to him by trappers or snarers who were snaring wallabies and kangaroos at the time and he took care and rehabilitated these animals, before sending them on to various zoos. A typical example of this being when he personally took several platypus to Tarongas Park Zoo in Sydney - I don't know what year it was, now. [edit]
Now, on to the thylacine: In 1931, grandfather and his mate were prospecting for gold in the Tarkine area, which is back of Burnie. They had set snares for wallabies and, perchance, caught a thylacine. It had a broken leg but, somehow or other, they managed to transport it to Wynyard, where the local GP - the local Doctor - anaesthetized and set the leg. Grandfather took it home and rehabilitated it before forwarding it to the Beaumaris Zoo in Hobart. That was in 1931. Now, that thylacine lived to 1936. [edit]
I fondly believe that there are some of the species - thylacine, that is - living today. [edit]
[up to this point he has been reading from his script. Now he relaxes and seems to be responding to questions]
I can't remember a great deal about this thylacine, except it had this plaster on its leg and it was in this cage, retreated to the back of the cage. It wouldn't come up very close to you but I reckon I was within five or six feet of it and I had a good look at it. It wasn't nasty in any way; it was just shy and lonely sort of thing, and I was very glad when it was sent off to the zoo and put in a better cage or yard, or whatever it was.