Akrobatisches Potpourri

• Family Grunato

Acrobatic Potpourri is a German short film, which was released on 1 November 1895. The film was shot during a performance of the artists family Grunato in Berlin -Moabit, and presented with the magic lantern.

Content

Eight members of the family Grunato lead before a balancing on the high wire.

Publication

The film is one of the first films that were presented in Europe of high public interest. The film was shown along with the films Italian peasant dance, funny Reck, serpentine dance, The Juggler Paul Petras, The boxing kangaroo, Kamarinskaja, wrestling and apotheosis in the conservatory on 1 November 1895.

The Citizen newspaper reported on November 5, 1895 the following movies:

" The finale of the presentation jumps to the smaller stage of Bioscop. The ingenious engineers used here amusing moment photography and bring them in enlarged form to display, but not rigid, but alive. How does he do that is to know the devil. "