Item title reads - Japanese firemen’s sports all excel at ladder drill and nearly every one is an acrobat. Hiroshima, Japan.
L/S as two firemen climb up a ladder, they both turn upside down and hang from it. Others do more acrobatic tricks on ladders in the background. M/S of the two, one balances on the other’s back and they hang off the ladder, he puts up a parasol. M/S as they do acrobatics and hang from the ladder on a rope with hoops on the end. M/S as one man balances on the back of the other man then falls off, the other catches him by his ankle. Then he does upside down balancing tricks on the rope and hoops the other man is holding.
Note: Note: this item is tinted green, there is a black and white version with the same title and footage on *PM0378*.
FILM ID:378.3
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