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| The Sick Kitten George Albert Smith | 1903 | 54 ft, 35 secs The 'doctor', carrying an umbrella, arrives to find the girl tending the sick baby. He brings a jar of 'fish' medicine, which she feeds to the kitten. She shakes hands with doctor, who doffs his hat and takes an ostentatious bow. The middle shot may be the first time a close-up was used simply to focus on action, rather than to simulate the view through a magnifying glass or microscope. This was a remake of Smith's 1901 film The Little Doctor. It was also known as Little Doctors and Little Doctor and the Sick Kitten. Even then continuity errors were possible: in the close-up the girl (the Smiths' daughter Dorothy?) is not wearing the pinafore seen the long shot. The hat looks like the one Smith wore in A Kiss in the Tunnel. |
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Film: public domain; Text © David Fisher