Rolling Acrobatics (1935)

Titles read: ’NOW Pathe Pictorial has pleasure in presenting - ROLLING ACROBATICS! by NONY PRACER of the Windmill Theatre, London’. Pathe Studio, London. Various shots of 16-year-old roller skater Nony Pracer skating around the studio set, dressed in a satin, fur-trimmed dress with matching hat and panties. The music sounds like a pseudo-Strauss waltz and is called ’Throw Open Wide Your Window’. Nony does handstands spins and high kicks. One handstand is in slow motion. She ends her act by doing two one-handed cartwheels and lands in the splits position. FILM ID:1652.1 A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), Br