Akrobatisches Potpourri
About Akrobatisches Potpourri
Eight circus performers, the Grunato family, run a balancing act. The camera watches the whole group.
Cast & crew
More about Akrobatisches Potpourri
Max and Emil Skladanowsky directed and produced it. Max photographed it. Also known as Gymnastikerfamilie Grunato. It was one number in the Bioscop program at the Berlin Wintergarten on November 1, 1895. Wikidata times it at 15 seconds. The program note for those acts says each film ran about six seconds and was repeated.
Themes
Look
Max Skladanowsky filmed the family outdoors in the Moabit park.
Preservation
The short survives on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- The Grunato troupe is the only billed act.
- It sits on the same bill as the Italian peasant dance, the boxing kangaroo, and the closing bow.
Scenes
- The eight Grunatos hold the balancing pose for the length of the shot.
