Acrobatic Feats By St Pensbys AKA Trapeze… 1910

Star Item

Description

Location of events unknown.

General view looking over the heads of spectators at a stage in the open air. St Pensby's Acrobats are performing. We first see two men on a kind of static trapeze - they do the swinging themselves! One man pretends to get stuck at the top of the trapeze and the...

more

Data

Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Silent
Media URN:
66049
Sort Number:
ON 192 A
Time in/Out:
01:13:33:00 / 01:14:44:00
Canister:
ON 192 A
Film ID:
2328.12
Issue Date:

Comments (0)

We always welcome comments and more information about our films.

All posts are reactively checked. Libellous and abusive comments are forbidden.

Add your comment

To post a comment, please Register or to add a comment
WW2 accounted for over 60m deaths and innumerable lives shattered. Pathé cameras took to land, sea and air to record the bloodshed. Here are the 10 bloodiest battles that were caught on film.
Battle
The great politician and orator Winston Churchill left behind a sea of humourous quips and discerning quotes. We remember some of his finest epigrams and witty ripostes.
Churchill
British Pathe captured many extraordinary events on film over its 80 year history but sometimes the cameras were switched on when tragedy struck.
Franz Reichelt

Related Videos

Hide
Stand Up And Sing

Stand Up And Sing

Two routines from the show "Stand Up and Sing" - an acrobatic troupe and a dance number.

Strength & Grace By The Brent Brothers

Strength & Grace By The Brent Brothers

The Brent Brothers perform a balancing act with two female acrobats.

Rodeo In Dublin

Rodeo In Dublin

Cowboys come to Ireland and entertain with their horseback stunts.

Suppleness & Winsome Winnie

Suppleness & Winsome Winnie

An acrobatic dance performed by Winsome Winnie - lots of contortionist type flexibility.

Lai Founs

Lai Founs

The Lai Founs, very bendy Chinese acrobats, perform their routine in the studio.

Wembley Exhibition 1925 Reel 1

Wembley Exhibition 1925 Reel 1

Great footage of the Wembley Exhibition of 1925.

(Rollo, Earl & Carole)

(Rollo, Earl & Carole)

Rollo, Earl and Carole perform daring feats on roller-skates - from PT 460 (?).

 

 

The death penalty has been carried out in almost all societies and although these images from WWI and WWII are unsettling, they still provide a raw account of events from a certain time.
Death Row
The images taken from inside Buchenwald Concentration Camp after its Liberation show us what it was like; it tells us what happened and forces us to remember.
Buchenwald
10 telling images selected from British Pathé's extensive WWI footage. 'The war to end all wars' was a war without parallel: over 70 million military personnel were involved and over 17 million people died.
WW1
The Duke of Edinburgh has many talents, but it is his unique way with words that often receives the most attention. 
LULU'S WEDDING
British Pathé filmed the 20th Century's biggest names, some of them before they even became famous. Click through and guess who these soon-to-be celebrities were when first captured by our cameras.
 Before_Famous
Private UFOs, flying bicycles, motorised wheels - Pathe's archive is awash with fabulous films of canny and creative transport inventions.Take a look at some of the more unusual but ingenious ideas that people have had to beat the traffic.
Transport_Inventions