Titles read: "NOW Pathe Pictorial has pleasure in presenting - SIRDANI THE INDESTRUCTIBLE!"
Pathe Studio, London.
Various shots of 'indestructible' man Sirdani doing some horrible things to his body. He is dressed in a kind of pseudo-Egyptian outfit consisting of a head-dress and robe....
Titles read: "NOW Pathe Pictorial has pleasure in presenting - SIRDANI THE INDESTRUCTIBLE!"
Pathe Studio, London.
Various shots of 'indestructible' man Sirdani doing some horrible things to his body. He is dressed in a kind of pseudo-Egyptian outfit consisting of a head-dress and robe.
First he pulls a large needle through the skin in his neck (yeuch!) and then stomps about in bare feet on some broken glass. He then climbs onto a stool and jumps onto the glass (youch!) and presses his feet down hard - natural sound of the glass crunching. He sits on the stool and shows us the soles of his feet - no blood!
Then Sirdani tells us he likes music with his meals and bites into a record. He follows this with a chomp on a glass and washes it down with a swig of water.
(Cataloguer feels quite faint and goes for a lie down.)
Note: I think Sirdani was usually referred to as a conjurer.
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