The animal’s outlook on life. The camera lens has been treated as the eyes of a mother cat, observing the daily details of life in a feline family. Thus, an ordinary room becomes an immense foreign environment, in which is enacted the drama of birth - a sequence now celebrated as one of the the most unusual in film literature.
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In ACMI's collection
Credits
Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
008723
Language
English
Subject categories
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Cinematography - Special effects
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Motion picture projection
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Motion pictures - Aesthetics
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Motion pictures - Appreciation
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Motion pictures - United States - History
Animals & Wildlife → Animal films
Animals & Wildlife → Animals - Infancy
Animals & Wildlife → Parental behavior in animals
Experimental → Experimental films - United States
Sound/audio
Silent
Colour
Black and White
Holdings
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)