Flashing Steel - Some Old And New Fencing Contrasts (1926)

“Twenty years ago“, explained Prof. Leon Bertrand, the well-known International Fencer, “the sabre duel was a solid and heavy affair, and the body armour cumbersome and weighty...“ C/U of the torso of a man who holds a fencing sabre. Various shots of him making moves with the foil are dissolved into each other. M/S of two fencers putting on their fencing helmets. M/S of them having a duel in a garden. C/U of the hand of one of the fencers. “Note the heavy sweeping “cuts“ and how comparatively slow