The Janus Museum Video Unit


A Janus Museum Video Unit Videographer videos a local cat using the celebrated Catcam.


The Janus Museum Video Unit, a division within the Janus Museum of Washington Grove, Maryland, actually predates the invention of video; it was founded as Janus Artistic Features Studio in 1912. The studio specialized in two reel features of dramatized Washington Grove history and works by Washington Grove authors - its greatest hits were The Druid's Curse (1914) and The Little Sergeant: An Incident of the Battle of Derwood (1916). Capitano Norbeque, the Studio's most ambitious production, was an attempt at a Douglas Fairbanks style swashbuckler; its costs brought the Studio to bankruptcy in 1920 with only half a reel shot. Sadly, none of the Unit's early work, made on perishable nitrate film stock, survives.

The Modern Janus Museum Video Unit was organized in 1978 to make films supporting the educational programs of the Janus Museum, and to document activities of the Museum and the greater Washington Grove community.

Many of the Video Unit's productions can be viewed on our Youtube Channel


A Recent Video Unit video:




Now Available from the Janus Museum Video Unit:




A Cat Compendium is a selection of twenty of the Janus Museum Video Unit's most popular cat videos. It features well-regarded feline performers Natasha, Leroy, Nutmeg, and Peake. Many of the videos have been newly remastered with vibrant soundtracks. Available in NTSC; PAL may be available.



A still from Father, Please Come Home!

A Cat Compendium:

Cats’ Walk
Maxine Would Prefer Not to Play
Cat-Dogs
Porch Time
Squid vs. Cat
Squid vs. Cat II
Circle Cats
A Brief Catwalk
On the Porch
Groundhog Day Catwalk
Scenes From a Catwalk
Father, Please Come Home!
The Zombie Game
The Eternal Triangle
A Flash in the Pan
Tooth & Fang
M2 - Sunday Morning
M2 - Hall Traffic
Strangers on a Bridge
Peake


Price $7.00, post paid

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