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The Acrobatic Tramps
(1902) England
B&W : 104 feet
Directed by James Williamson
Cast: (unknown)
Williamson Kinematograph Company production; distributed by Williamson Kinematograph Company. / Produced by James Williamson. / Released July 1902. / [?] 35mm spherical format?
Comedy.
Synopsis: [From Williamson Films catalog, November 1903 (as transcribed in Sopocy-Williamson p. 32)] Old gentleman has been doing a bit of carpentry, and is just shouldering his tool basket and moving off when two tramps appear over the fence, and do some rather remarkable acrobatic feats (assisted by reverse movement of the camera). They see the old man coming and scamper off, one going over the fence, and the other climbing a tree, which he pulls over on top of him. The old man goes away again; tramps reappear and do some remarkable feats; seeing the old man coming again with a gun, one tramp turns a somersault and disappears; the other rises up in the air and also disappears; the old man points his gun in the air and fires; tramp tumbles down all torn to rags by the shot, and is chased around and around by the old man, finally disappearing over the fence.
Survival status: Print exists in the George Eastman Museum film archive.
Current rights holder: (unknown)
Listing updated: 28 May 2018.
References: Sopocy-Williamson pp. 32-33, 253.
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