Hadj Cheriff, Arab Knife Juggler (Best Quality) 1894

Hadj Cheriff is an American film directed by William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, released in 1894 .

This film is one of the first shot with the first vertical linear scrolling cinema camera, the Kinetograph camera , in 35 mm wide format , with two pairs of four perforations per frame , designed by Dickson and Heise from sketches by Thomas Edison and the first model which unrolled the 19 mm wide film horizontally, with six perforations at the bottom of the frame.

Although the variant title for this film is "Arab knife juggler", and the performer is holding a knife in each hand, he appears to discard the knives just before his first handstand and cartwheel. He then performs an acrobatic routine which is a series of handstands, cartwheels, leaps and twirls.

Contributors -

Dickson, W. K.-L. (William Kennedy-Laurie), 1860-1935, film producer.
Cheriff, Hadji, performer. Heise, William, cinematographer. Thomas A. Edison, Inc., production company, film distributor.

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