The Famous Wallendas (1937)

Item title reads - Pathetone now has pleasure in presenting the famous Wallendas “flirting with death“. M/S of one of the men doing forward rolls on a high wire whilst holding a long pole for balance, he walks along. M/S of a young woman cycling backwards and forwards on the wire. M/S as she climbs onto a man’s shoulders, he is sat on the bicycle on the high wire. She then sits on his shoulders and he cycles up to the platform. M/S as one man does a handstand on another’s shoulders, he is stood on one leg. M/S of one balancing on two others. M/S of two men on bicycles, they make a tower as another balances on platform between them and the girl stands on his shoulders, the cyclists set off and reach the other side. FILM ID:1154.3 A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents th
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