Tontolini Turns a Somersault - Production & Contact Info (original) (raw)

Tontolini witnesses the performances of a clever acrobatic troupe whose gyrations so impress him that he at once is imbued with the wish to turn somersaults, and his wonderful attempts are irresistibly funny. He upsets two friends in the ...See moreTontolini witnesses the performances of a clever acrobatic troupe whose gyrations so impress him that he at once is imbued with the wish to turn somersaults, and his wonderful attempts are irresistibly funny. He upsets two friends in the road, goes home and smashes all the crockery, and with his family is precipitated through the ceiling into a neighbor's flat, takes a header through a shop window, upsetting the contents of the shop and causing endless damage and confusion in his attempts . at turning somersaults. He next comes to a building in course of erection and bribes a workman to propel him into the air by means of a spring -board, and . by some clever trick effects we see him finally landed in a belfry clinging to the tongue of a bell. We next find him sinking through space and his final descent upon a crowd of people apparently unhurt. By his last escapade he has acquired his ambitions, and this bustling subject closes with some extraordinary acrobatic feats by Tontolini. Written by Kinematograph Weekly - August 25, 1910 See less