Visual Form Discrimination In The Cat (1933)

Director	Karl Ulrich Smith
Producer	University of Rochester, NY
Contributors
Length	11 min
B&W/Color	b&w
UO Library Catalog description:
Call #	FILM Ma36
Genre	instructional
Rare	yes
Online	no
Copyright status	public domain
Physical condition	good
Oregon-related	no

Notes:

Filmed experiment series. Silent; Star Wars crawls explain some scene transitions. Cats learn to make the connection between treats and boxes with different shapes on them. Smith wrote his master’s thesis at Brown on this topic in 1933, and published a journal article about it in 1935. Not as life-changing as Adaptive Behavior of Golden Mantled Ground Squirrels, but has its modest share of tension and comedy.