shortly after the early kinetoscope experiment leonard cushing fight and feature the two boxer jack cushing and mike leonard in a boxing match and this movie get make at the thomas edison black maria studio and feature two cat and fully equip with box glove and have a go at each other . so perhaps with some imagination you can call this movie the first ever make spoof and it certainly be the first ever do comical subject at the thomas edison black maria studio . the subject of professor welton ( exactly what be he a professor in i wonder . ) vaudeville act of two box cat be sort of amusing and cute . no doubt that animal right organization now day would do anything to ban this movie from be show be it make today but truth be that this be a pretty harmless act . the glove take away a lot of the blow and so no cat get harm during the making of this motion picture and actually see cat fight on the street with their claw be of course something far more violent and violent look and even though it just nature and unlike obviously put glove on a couple of cat and let them fight in a small boxing ring . henry welton himself ( the professor from this movie it title ) set the cat up against each other and he can be see pick them up toward each other . these two cat obviously have no grudge toward each other but be put up to it to fight . perhaps not the most kind thing to do but you also have to remember that this be 1894 when these sort of animal vaudeville act be very common and part of everyday life . the camera be pretty close up to the fight but it cover the entire fighting area . it not entirely symmetric and since it only show one side of the ring . nevertheless it an effective composition and since it show everything that need to be see and apart from it shaking image and it perfect . the same can be say about the quality of the movie . hardly any grain here in this one . a nice little comical turn from the boy at the edison manufacture company . positive .