Japanese acrobats captured on 1904 film by Thomas Edison

On one sunny day of April 29, 1904, American inventor and scientist Thomas Edison made a short film of two pretty intense Japanese acrobats at his New York City studio:

Footage is from the archives of the U.S. Library of Congress. More details can be found on this page.

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