IMDb title #0000011: Akrobatisches Potpourri (1895, Max and Emil Skladanowsky)
'Akrobatisches Potpourri' is an early short film documenting a performance for the camera by the Grunatos, a family of German circus performers. The co-director and co-producer, Max Skladanowsky was one of the early motion picture system inventors. He and his brother Emil's invention, the Bioscop, was used to screen 'Akrobatisches Potpourri' along with several other shorts. This would be the first time in Europe that a motion picture show would be screened before a paying audience.
A month later, however, the Lumière Brothers publicly debuted their superior projector called the Cinématographe, and the Skladanowskys would soon fade into obscurity in the moving picture business.
New German Cinema director Wim Wenders would not forget the Skladanowskys, though, and in 1995 he made a film with students of the Munich Film Academy called 'A Trick of Light', with Udo Kier as Max Skladanowsky.
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