Performing Animals; or, Skipping Dogs

1895 Documentary

A short black-and-white silent documentary film featuring one dog jumping through hoops and another dancing in a costume, which was considered lost until footage from an 1896 Fairground Programme was identified as being from this film.

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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.

== Current status ==
Given its age, this short film is available to freely download from the Internet.

== References ==

== External links ==
full video on YouTube

Source: Wikipedia

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Director Birt Acres
Producer Birt Acres

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