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Knife throwing is the most common and well-known discipline within the impalement arts. It includes the throwing of axes, machetes and other sharp implements as well as knives./nTwo Tornados Irene and Rolf Stey are members of an old Swiss circus family who did a knife act between 1965 and 1985 and made various television appearances, including a performance at the International Circus Festival of Monte-Carlo. They are one of only two acts other than Elizabeth and Collins to have done the simultaneous combination of throwing from a tightrope and the wheel of death.

....with a little help from Tom and Jerry

Short documentary about the highwire troupe The Flying Wallendas.

Tony Steele (USA) jumps from 20 meters onto an air cushion 4 metres square. Elephants and girl. Trapeze artists. Acrobat on top of swaying pole. The Great Doval (USA)- Tightrope walker on stilts. Chrys Holt juggles suspended by her hair. The Hortobagys (Hungary) teeterboard. Sandow Komlos (Hungary)- Lion Tamer.

Silent newsreel footage of fundraising performance. Features wire walkers, a wall of death, hoop spinning on walking ladder, clowns & their car. 1950.

Newsreel footage about a circus reopenning after WW2. April 1946. Background sound, but no voiceover. Features a plate spinner, an elephant barber, a wire walker, clowns and other animal acts.