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An Australian film featuring animation over live-action backgrounds from the 1970s. Based on an 1899 novel by Ethel C. Pedley. An early success for the Yoram Gross studio, with many sequels (diverging further and further from the original source material).
An Australian film featuring animation over live-action backgrounds released in December 15, 1977. Based on an 1899 novel by Ethel C. Pedley. An early success for the Yoram Gross studio, with many sequels (diverging further and further from the original source material).


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* [[Animal Stampede]]: All of the animals do this when they say that there's danger.
* [[Animal Stampede]]: All of the animals do this when they say that there's danger.
* [[Art Shift]]: The Aboriginal cave drawings in The Bunyip Song.
* [[Art Shift]]: The Aboriginal cave drawings in The Bunyip Song.
* [[Artistic Licence Biology]]: In the Council of the Animals scene, there was a rabbit. Rabbits aren't native to Australia. The book has a hare. Hares also aren't native in Australia. Willy Wagtail is shown to be friendly, but in real life, willie wagtails are aggressive to humans.
* [[Artistic Licence Biology]]: Willy Wagtail is shown to be friendly to Dot, but in real life, willie wagtails are aggressive to humans.
* [[Badass Bookworm]]: The kangaroo shows Dot on how everything does.
* [[Badass Bookworm]]: The kangaroo shows Dot on how everything does.
* [[Beserk Button]]: Mr. Platypus dislikes books written about him.
* [[Beserk Button]]: Mr. Platypus dislikes books written about him.
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** Dot also had this during the opening credits, when she got lost in the gully and in the ending where she cries over the kangaroo.
** Dot also had this during the opening credits, when she got lost in the gully and in the ending where she cries over the kangaroo.
* [[Disney Acid Sequence]]: The Bunyip Song.
* [[Disney Acid Sequence]]: The Bunyip Song.
* [[Disney Death]]: One of the frogs at the end of the song "I'm a Frog".
* [[Disney Dog Fight]]: The kangaroo anxiously fights with one of the dingoes. (In real life, kangaroos seem to be brave of fighting against dingoes.)
* [[Disney Dog Fight]]: The kangaroo anxiously fights with one of the dingoes. (In real life, kangaroos seem to be brave of fighting against dingoes.)
* [[Disney Villain Death]]: One of the dingoes does this.
* [[Disney Villain Death]]: One of the dingoes does this.
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* [[Literal Cliff Hanger]]: The kangaroo does this.
* [[Literal Cliff Hanger]]: The kangaroo does this.
* [[Mama Bear]]: The kangaroo acts as a mother figure to Dot besides being her guide.
* [[Mama Bear]]: The kangaroo acts as a mother figure to Dot besides being her guide.
* [[Misplaced Wildlife]]: In the Council of the Animals scene, there was a rabbit. Rabbits aren't native to Australia. The book has a hare. Hares also aren't native to Australia.
* [[Never Got to Say Goodbye]]: Averted in the book; Dot and the kangaroo say goodbye to each other. Played straight in the film; when the kangaroo left for her home, Dot has never got to say goodbye to the kangaroo.
* [[Never Got to Say Goodbye]]: Averted in the book; Dot and the kangaroo say goodbye to each other. Played straight in the film; when the kangaroo left for her home, Dot has never got to say goodbye to the kangaroo.
* [[Never Smile At a Crocodile]]: At the end of the song "I'm a Frog", the frogs realise that the log was really a crocodile, so they hop for their lives and dive in the water including one of them almost being eaten.
* [[No Indoor Voice]]: The bitterns are known to be little birds with loud voices.
* [[No Indoor Voice]]: The bitterns are known to be little birds with loud voices.
* [[No Name Given]]: The titular kangaroo and the other animals.
* [[No Name Given]]: The titular kangaroo and the other animals.
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