Prince Alfred Park, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Panorama du grand Canal pris d'un bateau (1896)

Madeleine Koehler, Marcel Koehler, and Jeanne Koehler in Premiers pas de bébé (1896)

À bord du 'Formidable': Ramassage du linge

À bord du 'Formidable': Ramassage du linge (1898)

Eccentric exercises of a skater with roller skates.

Marius Sestier

Patineur grotesque

Tramp On Roller Skates

That&apos;s pretty much what you get in this very short -- 42 seconds in the copy I saw -- short. A fat man in shabby clothes taking falls, until he proceeds to do a series of twirls for the last ten seconds.

The combination of prat falls and grace is a telling one. I&apos;ve never seen a live performance of this sort, but I do recall ice tummelers, clowns on ice skates, in the Catskills in the early 1960s. Supreme among them were a pair called Frick and Frack. A pair of Swiss men, they came to the US for the Ice Follies in 1937 and performed for many years. Frick died in 1979; Frack held out until 2008. Or maybe it was the other way around.

That's pretty much what you get in this very short -- 42 seconds in the copy I saw -- short. A fat man in shabby clothes taking falls, until he proceeds to do a series of twirls for the last ten seconds.

The combination of prat falls and grace is a telling one. I've never seen a live performance of this sort, but I do recall ice tummelers, clowns on ice skates, in the Catskills in the early 1960s. Supreme among them were a pair called Frick and Frack. A pair of Swiss men, they came to the US for the Ice Follies in 1937 and performed for many years. Frick died in 1979; Frack held out until 2008. Or maybe it was the other way around.

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