Knife Throwing Family

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Duration: 00:01:02
Language: English
Color: B/W
Audio: Sound
Donor: N/A

Dates

Filmed: ca. 1950’s

About the Video

Considered an ‘impalement art’, knife-throwing as performance and entertainment characteristically features human targets. It has enjoyed a long history as part of circuses and side-shows of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Not much is known about this film of Louella Gallagher throwing knives at her daughters, Connie Ann and Colleen Sue, as a crowd of children look on, but it represents well the tone of most national newsreel stories about Texas – a little nonsense, a little awe, and more than a little disbelief!


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