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The Sick Kitten

19031 minUnited Kingdom
Comedy
Video edition
Wikimedia Commons
Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: zxx.
This copy runs
1:04
Subtitles
No subtitle track in this language

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Wikimedia Commons · UnknownUnknown · Public domain

Synopsis

Two children care for an ailing kitten in a brief domestic scene. The camera moves closer to the animal, turning a small gesture of care into the centre of the film.

DirectorsGeorge Albert Smith

Behind the scenes

George Albert Smith remade his earlier, now-lost The Little Doctor. The use of a close view without an explanatory mask shows an early filmmaker trusting audiences to follow a change in shot scale.

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