''The Boxing Cats (Prof. Welton's)'', or simply ''Boxing Cats'',
is an 1894 American
short
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silent film directed by
William K.L. Dickson
William Kennedy Laurie Dickson (3 August 1860 – 28 September 1935) was a British people, British inventor who devised an early motion picture camera under the employment of Thomas Edison.
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William Kennedy Dickson was born on 3 ...
and
William Heise, and starring Henry Welton. It depicts a
boxing match
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between two cats, each of which is wearing a pair of
boxing glove
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s.
The two cats were members of Welton's touring "cat circus",
which reportedly also featured cats riding bicycles.
''The Boxing Cats'' was filmed in
Thomas Edison's
Black Maria studio in
West Orange, New Jersey, on
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.
The film has been described as a precursor to
cat videos
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popular on the
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See also
* ''
Men Boxing
''Men Boxing'' is an 1891 American short silent film, produced and directed by William K. L. Dickson and William Heise
William Heise (1847–1910) was a German-born American film cinematographer and director, active in the 1890s and credited f ...
'', an 1891 film also directed by Dickson and Heise
References
Further reading
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External links
*
''The Boxing Cats (Prof. Welton's)''at the
Library of Congress
1894 films
Films directed by William Kennedy Dickson
Articles containing video clips
American boxing films
American black-and-white films
American silent short films
Films shot in New Jersey
Edison Manufacturing Company films
1890s American films
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