The Kremos family produced two generations of famous acrobats from about 1880 through the 1930s. They originally hailed from Switzerland and in all, about twenty-five of them were acrobats and one was a juggler.
There were three short films showing the family doing their act, all filmed in 1899. This one shows some of the youngsters dressed in breech clouts. Some of them form a human pyramid while others leap about. I can't tell where this was shot, but they perform in front of a small palm tree, probably to give a better sense of scale.
This being a Lumiere short, even though the action takes place within a constrained section of the frame, the variety of movement, both in speed and direction, keeps the eye moving about the frame.
There were three short films showing the family doing their act, all filmed in 1899. This one shows some of the youngsters dressed in breech clouts. Some of them form a human pyramid while others leap about. I can't tell where this was shot, but they perform in front of a small palm tree, probably to give a better sense of scale.
This being a Lumiere short, even though the action takes place within a constrained section of the frame, the variety of movement, both in speed and direction, keeps the eye moving about the frame.
