Whether you're a dog person or a cat person (or maybe you love them both – like we do at the NFSA), we've got you covered with these vintage collections.

This episode of The Mike Walsh Show features a guest with an unusual family pet – Narelle Sterio has brought along her four-eared cat named Smokey.

Janine Winfree, the recipient of the 2019 Ray Edmondson Fellowship, visited the NFSA from George Eastman House in the US to explore our 28mm film collection.

This clip is an excerpt from the animated short by Pat Sullivan and Otto Messmer, Felix Turns The Tide (1922).

The Cat Piano, which you can watch here in full, is a short animation narrated by Nick Cave.

In Pussy Pumps Up, which can be viewed here in full, a feline female figure assumes more masculine characteristics.

Summary by Dr Marian Quigley.

In a city of singing cats, a lonely beat poet falls for a beautiful siren.

This advertisement is another from a campaign for Kit-E-Kat cat food by George Patterson Advertising from the mid-1970s. 

This vintage advertisement is from a campaign for Kit-E-Kat cat food by George Patterson Advertising that ran from the late 1960s into the 1970s. 

It's a tradition that long predates the world wide web... cats in costume making us laugh out loud.