Summary

The artists of Zugspitze who fled East Germany put on a high-wire act in Miami, FL

Source Sherman Grinberg
Newsreel Paramount
Negative # D-6348
Clip SR005055_01_06mov
Date 09/01/1954
Title The artists of Zugspitze who fled East Germany put on a high-wire act in Miami, FL
Description Title: Wired For Thrills superimposed over acrobats on wire / WS acrobat walking on wire, ocean, streets / WS acrobat doing handstand on pole, tilt down to street / MS Heinz Krause, Hi-wire acrobat, getting ready to put on blindfold / CU Krause putting on blindfold / VS Heinz Krause, blindfolded, walking on wire, people watching from top of roof in background / Back view motorcycle act with Hans Eichorn, another Hi-wire acrobat, on motorcycle and Heinz Kattner, another Hi-wire acrobat, seated on trapeze under motorcycle / Tilt down from Eichorn on motorcycle, to Kattner suspended from trapeze, he is suspended by his feet / LS pan from city to CU of motorcycle act starting to return, Eichorn is riding motorcycle backwards / 3 acrobats, Eichorn on motorcycle, Krause on left seated on trapeze and Gunter Winkler, another Hi-wire acrobat, trying to balance on ladder at right / CU Winkler trying to balance in wind / MS 3 acrobats, Krause on left, does head-stand on ladder, Winkler, at right, balancing ladder and Eichorn over motorcycle with one hand and one leg in air / CU Winkler at right trying to balance ladder, camera pans down as Krause, on left, turns over on ladder and picture reveals cord around Krause's neck and lets go of ladder to hang suspended by neck, camera pans up to Eichorn standing on motorcycle, hands free, salutes / Note: exact day not known
Personality Heinz Krause, Heinz Kattner, Hans Eichorn, Gunter Winkler
Country United States
Province/State Florida
City Miami

Keywords

archival
newsreel
Paramount Issues
acrobats
motorcycles
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tightrope walkers
ladders
refugees
blindfolds
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roofs
trapezes
East Germany
stunts
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