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…
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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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