{"id":29702,"date":"2022-11-01T12:24:58","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T11:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.petscanner.com\/?p=29702"},"modified":"2022-11-14T12:31:10","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T11:31:10","slug":"what-was-the-worlds-first-cat-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/petscanner.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/01\/what-was-the-worlds-first-cat-video\/","title":{"rendered":"What Was The World\u2019s First Cat Video?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is difficult to truly explain the intense popularity of cat videos on the internet, as ostensibly they are simple clips of cats just being themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Part of it is that, unlike the unconditional love of dogs, cats often have a very broad range of personalities from rogueish independence to cold standoffish surliness to wild enthusiasm, which gives the\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/cat-microchipping-to-be-made-mandatory\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">rollout of cat microchipping<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0a different significance to the similar law for dogs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, to celebrate the first anniversary of cat owners being required to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.petscanner.com\/index.php\/registermicrochip\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">update each pet microchip<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with their most recent address details, it is worth looking at the first example of a cultural artefact created by people\u2019s fascinated love for our feline friends.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whilst cat videos are typically associated with internet culture thanks to repositories such as \u201cI Can Has Cheezburger\u201d [sic] and an upload of a 1984 video more famously known as\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=J---aiyznGQ\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cKeyboard Cat\u201d<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, before the uploading of Keyboard Cat, before the filming of the video, before the invention of video and only a few years after the invention of cinema itself as a medium in 1888, a cat film was released.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=k52pLvVmmkU\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Boxing Cats<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, directed by William Dickson, the inventor of 35mm perforated film and William Heise, was a 23-second film of two cats in a miniature boxing ring pawing at each other with boxing gloves on.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was filmed in the Black Maria studio, an experimental film studio set up by Thomas Edison and featured Henry Welton and two cats from his \u201ccat circus\u201d, chosen presumably because of the strangeness of the subject matter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The film was one of many test films made in 1894, showing a range of actions including a bucking bronco, a contortionist act, lasso throwing, the first ever filmed boxing match and a man sneezing, the latter of which was the oldest motion picture with a copyright attached.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is difficult to truly explain the intense popularity of cat videos on the internet, as ostensibly they are simple clips of cats just being themselves. 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