--- title: Cute Puppy and Kitten Videos of History: Some Things Never Change description: A newly freed archive of historical footage proves that the appeal of cute baby animals pre-dates YouTube canonical: https://time.com/3969746/cute-puppies-kittens-of-history/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-23T18:15:44.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:22:29.038Z article:section: History og:title: Here's Proof That Cute Puppies Have Always Been Newsworthy og:description: The appeal of cute baby animals pre-dates YouTube og:url: https://time.com/3969746/cute-puppies-kittens-of-history/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Here's Proof That Cute Puppies Have Always Been Newsworthy twitter:description: The appeal of cute baby animals pre-dates YouTube twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Here's Proof That Cute Puppies Have Always Been Newsworthy by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Jul 23, 2015 6:15 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Jul 23, 2015 6:15 PM UTC Historical footage from the Associated Press and British Movietone, two of the world’s most prominent newsreel archives, is [now available](http://time.com/3967820/youtube-million-minutes-historical-footage/) to watch on YouTube. The more than one million minutes of material, which dates back to 1895, will showcase historical moments in everything from sports to science. It will also showcase cute animals, as you’ll see in the clip above, released by British Movietone. “In America, they claim to have found the world’s most patient cat,” says the old-timey British voice-over. “Of course cats often put up with a fair amount of rough stuff from children and even puppies, but this one evidently never loses its temper. It’s a puppy’s dream cat.” What follows is 33 glorious seconds of adorable puppies play-attacking a cat. In other words, you know, the exact thing that is bound to go viral in today’s modern news cycle. Oh, and for more old-timey coverage of cute animals, check out these baby penguins: ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3969746/cute-puppies-kittens-of-history/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3969746/cute-puppies-kittens-of-history/"},"headline":"Here's Proof That Cute Puppies Have Always Been Newsworthy","datePublished":"2015-07-23T18:15:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:22:29.038Z","description":"Adorable animal videos were part of the news cycle long before the era of \"clickbait\"","url":"https://time.com/3969746/cute-puppies-kittens-of-history/","keywords":["animals","Newsfeed","video"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"History","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/history/","name":"History"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/animals/","name":"animals"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3969746/cute-puppies-kittens-of-history/","name":"Here's Proof That Cute Puppies Have Always Been Newsworthy"}}]}] ```