Falling Cat

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Falling Cat is an 1894 chronophotographic image produced by Étienne-Jules Marey, a French scientist. It was the third film that came out in the 19th century filmed in a public park, Bois de Boulogne in Paris, and released in France.{{IMDb title|2049440|Falling Cat (1894)}} It is believed to be the first motion picture in history to show a live cat. The film consists solely of the feline falling down and landing on its feet.

Marey had assembled a camera that was capable of taking twelve consecutive frames a second. It resembled a short barrelled shotgun with a magazine. With this, he studied various animals in action. His most famous study was his ‘animated zoo’, in which this cat was dropped from a height of a few feet in order to see if it always landed on its feet.{{cite web|title=Falling Cat (Documentary Movie) streaming video|url=http://hd.baratayudamovie.com/movie/154339-falling-cat.html|website=Movie Video Streaming|accessdate=31 March 2015|date=2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180221123108/http://hd.baratayudamovie.com/movie/154339-falling-cat.html|archive-date=21 February 2018|url-status=dead}}