Falling Cat (1894)
- Directed by
- Étienne-Jules Marey
- Genre
- documentary film, silent film
- Country
- France
- Runtime
- 2 min
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
This is a very early scientific film from 1894. It shows the different stages of a cat falling and landing on its feet.
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What happens
Falling Cat is an 1894 chronophotographic image depicting the successive phases of a feline falling down and landing on its feet, produced by Étienne-Jules Marey, a French scientist who researched locomotion. The sequence was shot at his station physiologique in Bois de Boulogne, Paris. It is believed to be the first chronophotographic sequence to show a live cat. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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