Performing Animals; or, Skipping Dogs (1895)

Directed by

Birt Acres

Genre

documentary film, silent film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1 min

Rating

4.6 of 10 from 6 voters

How it feels

A very short black and white film from the 1890s. One dog jumps through hoops and another dog dances in a costume.

shortsilenthistoricalcurioussimpleplayfulnostalgicobservational

What happens

Performing Animals; or, Skipping Dogs is an 1895 British short black-and-white silent documentary film, produced and directed by Birt Acres for exhibition on Robert W. Paul's peep show Kinetoscopes, featuring one dog jumping through hoops and another dancing in a costume. The film was considered lost until footage from an 1896 Fairground Programme, originally shown in a portable booth at Hull Fair by Midlands photographer George Williams, donated to the National Fairground Archive was identified as being from this film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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