The first ever cat video, May 1900 (upscaled, colorized, speed adjusted)

In the world’s first cat video, estimated to be filmed in May 1900, Madeleine Koehler plays with and feeds the family cat. This video is part the Lumiere Brothers’ portfolio of over 1400 video clips, shot between 1895 and 1905. This video clip is a stabilized and colorized version of the film, It was colorized using the DeOldify machine learning algorithm, scaled up with Topaz video AI and increased in fps from 18 to 60 using DAIN (running on the Google Colab cloud environment) with a subsequent 50% reduction in playing speed for an effective fps of 30. more detail about this specific video here
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