Falling Cat (movie)
- User score: 5.3
- Production country: France
- Producer: Étienne-Jules Marey
- Genre: Documentary
- Release date: 1/1/1894
- Run time: 1 min.
Movie description
Directed by Étienne-Jules Marey, a French scientist, this is believed to be the first cat ever filmed in cinematic history. Jules Marey created the chronophotographic gun in 1882, a device which looked like a short barrelled shotgun with a magazine on top. It was capable of taking twelve consecutive frames a second. He used this to study various animals, the most famous study in what was called Marey’s ‘animated zoo’, was the one involving a cat which was dropped from a height of a few feet in order to see if it always landed on its feet.
