Luis Martinetti, Contortionist

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Luis Martinetti, Contortionist

1894

0h 1m

5.3(28 votes)

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Luis Martinetti, a contortionist suspended from acrobatic flying rings, contorts himself for about thirty seconds. This is one of the first films made for Edison's kinetoscopes.

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