I know this is a little sick, but....
This is a very old recording, one of the earliest recordings onto film by Thomas Edison, of the Execution of Topsy the elephant.
Typical of the Victorian era, Topsy was publically sentenced to death for the murder of three trainers. here trainer had tried to feed her a burning cigarette, of course, but that didn't seem to be of any help for poor Topsy's case.
First they tried to poison her, but it didn't work. Then they decided to hang her. Can you believe it?
But Thomas Edison convinced them to electrocute her, which was actually a good thing as it only took a few seconds for her to die.
We watched this film in class a while back, and there's no blood or anything, but don't watch it if you are a bit sensitive to animal execution.
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