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THis 22-minute 1947 Klassic from Alexander Hammid and Maya Deren is a black and white dream, showing the birth (yes, BIRF!) of five kitt-tayns. Then, they learn to walk. It's very sweet, and feels like a warm glass of milk in video form.
Ahn.
Nice submishe, Alysha L. >^•^<
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Kenya, is that you, back in time???
Wouldn't that be Grand Kenya?
What a good mamacat!
So close to being able to say bleen...so close.
I was thinkin the same thing. Theo- you tewtally shopped this, didn't ya? I thought so.
Just further proof that cats rule, and have always ruled.
it's mama Kenya!
http://teho.vox.com/library/posts/tags/kenya+kitty/
:asplodes:
OaklandCat -- hey, I'm not the guy who spliced Tom Hanks in with Nixon and Lennon.
This is not the box of chocolates you're looking for.
totally amazing! I love Maya Deren!!!
two things I learned from this video:
- they had cardboard boxes in 1947 *
- ditto CHIPS
* which leads one to wonder: how were kittens born before cardboard boxes?
Mariser In baskets behind the stove in the kitchen, or under the front porch, or best of all in the hay stack in the barn where they stay warm and cozy
Awwww...I got the warm fuzzies. It's like a great movie on TCM with kitties!
BTW, back to modern times, congrats on the Webbies!
I love this. It's from the online moving image archive, one of the best sites on the web. I think it's sweet how the mommy and daddy cat take turns parenting.
The beginning of this is so funny. The boy kitteh is all like come on baby, and she turns away and gives him the ear. So he comes over and starts leecking very carefully, and she's all like tolerating him, and magically she is preggers! The very private life of cats!
Ya. Same here. The dad totally was helping and OMGZ!!When he got in the box and mama was licking dad and the babies wuz crawling all over!!111!
That is a true warm fuzzy. Baby kittens being born! Definitely, a very good mama cat. I loved when she carried 'em over to "a better place to learn to walk." And when the two kittehs were drinking a saucer of milk, side by side :)
my kittens were born (22 years back) in my mom's favorite pair of shoes. I thought all good mama cats sought out human shoes for birthing!
And yeah, daddy cat just rocked in this video. Although I realize that was probably a deliberate staging to enforce the family ideal of the time (since most toms are deadbeat dads-!).
I kept expecting Mom Cat to give Dad a whollop, but he was nice and nonthreatening, so she let him stay. They both looked pretty young. Beautiful kittens, 4 white and one tortie!
That little video was so heartwarming. What a good Mom & Dad!!
It's so cute when the dad peeks over the side of the box @ 9:42!!
Holy 22 minutes, batman!
I'll have to watch this later ;)
bunnahusband is working overseas at the moment and we just watched it "together"...I had started the video when I called him. Our conversation went like this:
Me: "ohh 6:46"
Him: "don't spoil it for me"
Me: "awwwww 9:42, 9:43, 9:45.."
Him: "I'm skipping ahead"
Me: "eeee 11:35"
Him: "and 12:09"
Me: "no, it's all about 13:50"
and so on and so forth for 22 minutes. We reached the end of the video and hung up.
Thanks Meg for a sweet phone date :)
So wondeful! Reminds me of our MamaCat having kittens in the 1950's. Her first batch was on my little sister's bed; the next ones were always in the laundry basket. Those Mamas just have to move the babies from place to place. Wonderful video!!
Yay for the Kenya look-a-like!! That made this video even better.
I've never seen a cat birth before, absolutely amazing! Look how the kittehs instinctively crawl to their mama's belly for nursing! Nature is wonderful.
Fav part is when the white kitten manages to walk all the way to momma and then starts to wander away and momma puts the smackdown on it - like, no, you're getting a bath whether you want one or not!
soooooooooooooo cute
best 22 mins evar
Wait, isn't this that new movie "Knocked Up?"
I thought Katherine Heigl was supposed to star in that?
bunnajenna sez,
"Thanks Meg for a sweet phone date :)"
ain't that the sweetest? so glad you got to share it like this.
Well that may be one of the most amazing 22 minutes I have ever spent in my life! I just couldn't look away...and it went buy so fast! I've never witnessed pair bonding like that between a male and female cat. That blew my mind. And in the end when they're on the scratching post trying to mimic the dad totally made my head asplode. So. i. am. ded.
Mama kitty reached out and squeezed my heart when she was panting with her labor pains.
Love Daddy cat peeking under the door! AWWW! Now he's playing with the babies! KITT'NS WALKING!!!
*asplode*
omg! I mean it went BY so fast, not buy. doi.
The dadcat was a good dad but such a typical man! The poor momcat just spit out a litter of 5 and the dad is all.... leeck me too! Then he teaches the kittens to climb up that pole and mom is all nuh-uh, get down from there!!! But I love how he was all proud....
No sound right? Or is it me?
Babykins was rapt!!!
You are not losing it, Helene. This is not a talkie. And thank god for that. Could you guys imagine if this video were made ten years later we would have had to endure some white guy droning on and on a la "Reefer Madness" and shit? (Although, I'm sure these film makers were probably more sophisticated than that)
Anybody else get confused with the "she" and "he" at the beginning?
I just about lost it at the sight of the sleeping babies about half way through, when they're two weeks old ;-)
And I agree that mama is about the best ever. A very heart-warming film to be sure!
Thanks Alysha for finding that!
I'm not hearing anything! Even with the volume turned all the way up! :-(
--TwoDragons
"When a mommy and daddy cat love each other very much, the daddy licks the mommy's ear and a few weeks later kittens are born."
I am soooo tooootallly impressed with how attentive the male cat is in this! Yes he had mom licking his head - but hey look how interested he was in the kittens...and doing the little tail flap thing for them to play with. Just too sweet!!!
OMG I was so worried that the Daddy was going to be mean to the babies! I'm glad it all worked out well! I also expected Momma to give Daddy a wallop, especially when he started batting HER! lol!!
Oh yeah and I too learned they had cardboard boxes back then. LOL I'm glad I'm not the only one that *learned* that from this video! :D
Bunnajenny, that is the most romantic date ever. Makes me want a husband just so I could send him across the ocean with a copy of ¨Babe.¨
Denita - see my post above yours re sound.
Sweet and adorable family. Good parenting. Had to think as I was watching that cats/kittens are the same now as they were 60 years ago.
Hahaha...."Refer Madness" reference!! This one is 1,000 times better though. Students in the 50's should have been forced to watch this anyday over "Refer Madness".
Ummm...I mean "Reefer"....
ENH! Absotively fraboolous! Couldn't take my eyes off the monitor for a nanosecond! Thanks Meg - and Alysha L - for making my day! XO XO
I never liked cats.
Ever.
But now I do. SHHH don't tell my boyfriend.
Nope, can't be Kenya - too many Reykjaviks.
But omigod how cute! That was so wonderful! I would like to be reincarnated as a lady cat so that I can have kittens by the half dozen! I'm meltiiiing....