Performing Fleas (1949)

Thought to be Selected Originals from late 1940s material. Paris, France. People queue up outside small building. CU Sign ’J’Achete Les Puces’. (I buy fleas). Int. People crowd round table - newsreel camera there to record what they are looking at. CU. Monsieur Robert, owner of the flea circus placing fleas on arm. He is placing very small items on the inside of his arm which is resting on the table. The items are tiny cars, bikes and other vehicles. A man pulls an enormous magnifying glass from inside his coat and looks through it - his face is highly magnified. C/U of the tiny vehicles through the magnifying glass. Fleas attached to the vehicles move around pulling the cars, bikes etc. behind them. They are moving around a “circus ring.“ Extreme C/U of fleas pulling a tricycle and a coach. Shot of a cameraman moving a large camera as if performing a panning shot. He looks directly into the camera with a strange scowl on his face. Another shot of the coach being pulled along. (The f