The Sick Kitten (1901) | BFI
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The Sick Kitten (1901) | BFI . Subscribe: http://bit.ly/subscribetotheBFI The Sick Kitten was made in 1901; six years after the birth of cinema, and over a century before today's cat-dominated internet scene. The premise is simple: two children play doctors with their kitten and feed it from a bottle labelled 'Fisik'. It licks away at the 'medicine' which we suspect is really milk. Within seconds, the kitty is cured and the young duo congratulate themselves with a triumphant handshake and a bow to the audience. The film was made by pioneer G.A. Smith, in Brighton, who was one of the earliest to identify the disarming screen presence of the domesticated cat. 'The Sick Kitten' is available to buy as part of the BFI 2-disc DVD set 'Early Cinema: Primitives and Pioneers' - http://filmstore.bfi.org.uk/acatalog/info_118.html All titles on the BFI Films channel are preserved in the vast collections of the BFI National Archive. To find out more about the Archive visit http://www.bfi.org.uk/archive-collections Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BFI Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BritishFilmInstitute Follow us on Google+: https://plus.google.com/+britishfilminstitute/ -
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What does this mean? Standard Youtube License
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Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T33lNsnVFbI
Resource type: Video
Last modified: 10 years ago
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