The Tight Rope Wizard (1933)

Full titles read: “THE TIGHTROPE WIZARD - Just twelve years old, but already an expert ’on the wire’ with an uncanny sense of balance.“ L/S’s of the young boy walking across a tightrope. He performs several stunts on the rope which include the “side crawl“, and jumping over a chair and landing back on the rope on the other side. His finale involves walking up a wire which is fastened to a pole that is 50 feet high, he then slides backwards down the pole all the way to the ground. C/U of the boy saying that he is more scared of talking in front of the camera than he is of walking tightropes. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empir