Three Acrobats (1899)

CREATED/PUBLISHED
United States : Edison Manufacturing Co., 1899.

SUMMARY
Vaudeville stage act of two male and one female clown-acrobats who make use of a constructed "break-away" wall of spring-hinged windows and doors. Begins with a male clown in dark tights and leotard with a white clown collar tumbling through the set's upper window, as a second male in a light suitcoat over dark tights and leotard tumbles out the bottom window. Both men have painted faces and wild clown hair. As they chase each other in and around the wall's doors, a dark-haired woman in light tights and leotard, without greasepaint, surreptitiously hits one of the male clowns with a board. That man thinks it is the other male who has struck him, and the chase continues. This business is repeated with a bucket. As the first male clown kicks the other, however, the woman is spotted and blamed for the incident, resulting in a chase between all three "acrobats" in and out of the set's doors.

NOTES
Copyright: Thomas A. Edison; 20Mar1899; 20772.

Original main title lacking.

Duration: 0:34 at 22 fps.

Materials listed originate from the paper print chosen best copy of two for digitization; for other holdings on this title, see the M/B/RS Paper Print database.

Portion of summary from K.R. Niver, Early motion pictures, 1985, p. 327.

Code name (for telegraphic orders) Unbounded.

NCN046351; Three acrobats.

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