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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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.
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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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