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Kasia Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg

Kasia Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg - Kasia Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg is an associate editor at The Atlantic. She curates the Video channel. More

Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg's work in media spans documentary television, advertising, and print. As a producer in the Viewer Created Content division of Al Gore's Current TV, she acquired and produced short documentaries by independent filmmakers around the world. Post-Current, she worked as a producer and strategist at Urgent Content, developing consumer-created and branded nonfiction campaigns for clients including Cisco, Ford, and GOOD Magazine. She studied filmmaking and digital media at Harvard University, where she was co-creator and editor in chief of H BOMB Magazine.

Fauna: A 1938 Film About Kittens

By Kasia Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg
Feb 3 2012, 4:24 PM ET Comment

Three Little Kittens, an educational film for kids, follows three newborn kittens through life on a farm. Courtesy of the Prelinger Archive, the film crafts little stories from spontaneous moments between the siblings. The ending is bittersweet, however, when they grow old enough to face the harsh reality of depression-era unemployment; two have to be sold to new owners because there "isn't enough work" on the farm for all three.

  

For more films from the Prelinger Archive, visit http://www.archive.org/details/prelinger.

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