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The Blog / 17 Oct 2026

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Early television's test pattern was a cat.

Early television's test pattern was a cat. In 1928 engineers spun a toy Felix on a phonograph turntable and left him on screen for hours, unpaid. He had debuted in 1919 as Master Tom in Feline Follies. Who else sits that still?
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Posted on X by @thesickkitten, 17 Oct 2026, 12:57 PM CT.

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