The Acrobatic Fly | |
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Screenshot from the film
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Directed by | F. Percy Smith |
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Kineto
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Distributed by | Urban Trading Company |
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Running time
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3 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | Silent |
The Acrobatic Fly (also known as The Balancing Bluebottle) is a 1910 British short silent documentary film, directed by F. Percy Smith, featuring close-ups of a housefly secured to the head of a match and juggling objects with its feet. The film, "is one of a series of Smith films on similar subjects around this time," and according to Mark Duguid of the BFI is, "near identical to, though briefer than, a sequence in his 1911 release The Strength and Agility of Insects."