The Acrobatic Fly

The Acrobatic Fly
The Acrobatic Fly
	Screenshot from the film
Directed by	F. Percy Smith
Production; company	Kineto
Distributed by	Charles Urban Trading Company
Release date	1910;
Running time	3 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	Silent

Last updated January 08, 2026

The Acrobatic Fly (1910)

The Acrobatic Fly (also known as The Balancing Bluebottle) is a 1910 British short silent documentary film, directed by F. Percy Smith, featuring close-ups of a housefly secured to the head of a match and juggling objects with its feet.^[1] The film, "is one of a series of Smith films on similar subjects around this time," and according to Mark Duguid of the BFI is, "near identical to, though briefer than, a sequence in his 1911 release The Strength and Agility of Insects ."^[2]

References

↑ "New Field Found For Moving Pictures" (PDF). New York Times . 27 February 1910. Retrieved 1 June 2011.
↑ Duguid, Mark (29 January 2008). "The Acrobatic Fly (1910)". BFIfilms YouTube channel. Retrieved 24 April 2011.

External links

The Balancing Bluebottle at IMDb

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[1] "New Field Found For Moving Pictures" (PDF). New York Times . 27 February 1910. Retrieved 1 June 2011.

[BFIyt01-2] Duguid, Mark (29 January 2008). "The Acrobatic Fly (1910)". BFIfilms YouTube channel. Retrieved 24 April 2011.

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