The Sick Kitten

The Sick Kitten

19031 min5.6 / 10

A charming, gentle vignette of Edwardian children tending to a sick kitten, notable as an early technical innovation in cinema history.

A simple scene of two rather flamboyantly-dressed Edwardian children attempting to feed a spoonful of medicine to a sick kitten. The film is important for being one of the earliest films to cut to a close-up, then back again to the same medium shot as before.

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