The Acrobatic Fly

The Acrobatic Fly (also known as The Balancing Bluebottle) is a 1910 British short silent documentary film, directed by F. Percy Smith, featuring close-ups of a housefly secured to the head of a match and juggling objects with its feet.^[1] The film, "is one of a series of Smith films on similar subjects around this time," and according to Mark Duguid of the BFI is, "near identical to, though briefer than, a sequence in his 1911 release The Strength and Agility of Insects."^[2]

The Acrobatic Fly
Screenshot from the film
Directed by	F. Percy Smith
Production company	Kineto
Distributed by	Charles Urban Trading Company
Release date	1910 (1910)
Running time	3 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	Silent

The Acrobatic Fly (1910)