''Akrobatisches Potpourri'' (also known as ''Gymnastikerfamilie Grunato'') is an 1895

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short

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silent

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directed and produced by

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and Emil Skladanowsky and starring the Grunato family. It is one of the first German produced films. Filmed in the park of the Berlin-Moabit Public Theatre this short film shows the balancing act performance of this family of 8 performers. It was one of a series of films produced to be projected by a

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and formed part of the Wintergarten Performances, the first projections of film in

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to a paying audience. The film titles for the initial program were: '' Italienischer Bauerntanz'', '' Komisches Reck'', '' Serpentinen Tanz'', ''Der Jongleur Paul Petras'', ''

Das Boxende Känguruh ''Boxing Kangaroo'' () is an 1895 German short black-and-white silent documentary film, directed and produced by Max Skladanowsky, which features a kangaroo Kangaroos are marsupials from the family Macropodidae (macropods, meaning ...

'', ''Akrobatisches Potpourri'', ''Kamarinskaja'', ''Ringkampf'', and ''Apotheose''. Each film lasted approximately six seconds and would be repeated several times.

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* 1895 films 1895 short films 1890s German films Films of the German Empire German black-and-white films Films directed by Max Skladanowsky German short documentary films German silent short films 1890s short documentary films Black-and-white documentary films {{short-silent-documentary-film-stub