Strong Men & Performing Dogs (1949)

No documentation on this item. Commentary in German STRONG MEN & PERFORMING DOGS Title Reads: “Lustiges Panoptikum“ MS: Extremely tall man exits shops and shakes hand of extremely short man. Pan to tall man trying to get into a car. A man behind him tries to push him in without success. He walks off. MS Strong man climbing up a pole. WS the strong man is lifting an enormous weight underneath him as he climbs. WS Bus being pulled along by only the teeth of a strongman. CU Strong mans face and teeth holding rope. WS Bus picking up speed as strongman pulls. MS Pan along row of bodybuilders. CU Bodybuilder flexing his muscles. WS A man and woman stand either side of a dog in costume. They balance a small boy upside down on the dogs head. CU the dogs head with upside down boy’s head balancing on top. WS The couple help the boy down and the 4 performers take a bow. WS: Stage set of small house. A dog wearing a dress walks on its hind legs (like a human). CU the dog spins in