La voltige

106 times a day. I wouldn't recommend doing that. Because if you're human (and you do that) there will be an inner part of you that really doesn't want to do it. What am I talking about? Well an experiment was performed on a sloth (to watch grown ups 2 for 37 hours) and then given a survey. What kind of tattoo would you want? was one of the questions. And the response: the sloth desired an image of Tom Brady holding( in his palm) a small round earth with saddened eyes drawn on it.

La voltige (1895)

This here is actually a fairly rare film for the era. Most of the Lumiere Brothers films from this period are actuality films, which are basically movies where the camera just captures whatever is going on in front of it. This film here is actually set up so one could say it's an early example of a scripted movie. Basically a man is trying to get on a horse but he can't quite make it in the saddle as he either falls over the side or simply can't get up at all. By today's standards there's certainly nothing funny here but at the same time history buffs should enjoy the film for its context and how it really wasn't the normal thing for a film from 1895.

A man tries to get on a horse, but he climbs to one side and falls from the other, until he manages to stay in balance. Persevering in the same error leads to continuing to make mistakes , altough this appears acrobatic.

This film, along with nine other films, were shown at a Paris, mini-film festival, by pioneering filmmakers, the Lumiere brothers, in December of 1895. Horse Trick Riders (1895) is the fourth movie, ever shown to a paying audience. It is the first ever example of stunt work in film too. It also was the first animal trick act ever shown to a paying audience. It features the first early examples of acrobatic artists doing their thing, in this case. Jumping onto a horse. It utilizes the acrobatic antics for the sake of comedy. It is a cool film to see, because of its early position in film history, but the Lumiere's really should have found better stunt men. These guys looked, kind-of, amateurish. This was so early in film history that the idea of multiple takes wasn't a thing yet. Still, for less than a minute its no worse than a YouTube video.

8.1 (B MyGrade) = 8 IMDB.