Old-Timey Cats

God bless the Atlantic.

The Oldest Cat Video of All Time?

This 1894 film, one of the earliest produced by Thomas Edison’s Black Maria movie studio, features two cats boxing. Obviously it’s not actually a video, but it’s certainly evidence that even at the dawn of cinema, over a century before YouTube, cats ruled the moving image.

But is this the first recording of a cat in motion? That credit, it seems, goes to…

(continued on the Atlantic Video channel)

(via theatlantic)

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because, Boxing Cats
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Now if I were to review these cats…
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To answer Anjel’s question from this morning: apparently cats were destined to rule the internet before it even existed,...
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I wonder about you cat people….
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