Acrobats Movies

This Pete Smith Specialty showcases the Cristiani Family, a circus act. They mount and dismount moving horses and perform acrobatic feats while...

Step into the curio cabinet of an ambitious inventor who defies the laws of time, space and dimension in order to reinvent everything around him....

King of the slack wire. His daring feats of balancing as he performs his thrilling feats in midair show that he is perfectly at home.

A man and a woman, who have never met, are forced by pecuniary circumstances to share the same basement apartment in shifts.

While working at a circus, a man hypnotizes a trapezist to kill her partner.

One out of three silent adaptations of the novella "Les quatre diables" written by Danish author Herman Bang. The most famous one, although...

A suitcase explores Vienna's suburbia and finds giant soap bubbles. It befriends the soap bubble girl. They create a show together and have a...

The famous acrobats in the above title appear in a marvellous acrobatic act. There are three barrels arranged on the stage. The boys, blindfolded,...

The second Kremo family acrobat film for the Lumiere. Involves one gag in which the adult is simultaeously flipping two children with his legs.

In a sunny open air setting with a background of high, deep foliage trees, and a white-walled storeyed house, an acrobat with light shirt and...

Part of the Wintergartenprogramm.

Luis Martinetti, a contortionist suspended from acrobatic flying rings, contorts himself for about thirty seconds. This is one of the first films...

Hadji Cheriff, a performer known for a variety of unusual abilities, demonstrates part of his act in the Thomas Edison studio. He has a large knife...

Love triangle in an acrobatic trapeze act results in a missed catch and a death, but was it on purpose?

A preadolescent boy, dressed like a street urchin, performs acrobatic stunts for the camera.

Eight circus performers known as the Grunato family perform their famous balancing act.

Red-tinted 9,5 mm Baby-Pathé version (1923) of a devilish contortionist short starring Fred Sato (1910/1911).

This early animated short depicts a Stone Age-era circus.