Boxing Cats is 20 seconds long silent film released on 1894. It was directed by William Kennedy Dickson and William Heise, and its production company was the Edison Manufacturing Company. It stars Henry Welton and his two cats.
It consists of a boxing match between two cats in a boxing ring, each wearing boxing gloves. And a human is shown in the background.
Tropes:
- Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal: Each cat only wears boxing gloves, simultaneously being naked.
- Minimalist Cast: There are only 3 characters; the two cats in front, and the one human in the background.
- Nameless Narrative: Everyone is left unnamed.
- No Ending: There is no resolution to the cats' boxing match, it just ends before we could ever see who would win.
- Partially Civilized Animal: The cats seem to act and fight like real regular cats, only difference being they wear boxing gloves, depicting a boxing match.
- Token Human: The man in the background is the only human ever appearing in the clip, meanwhile everyone else is a cat.