Mary Reid Kelley’s Camel Toe (2008).
Luis Martinetti, Contortionist (1984) Dir. W.K.L. Dickson
Luis Martinetti, a flying -ring acrobatic contortionist, was one of the two Italian “Martinetti Brothers” who debuted in America in September 1894. For his performance for Edison’s camera on October 11, 1894, Luis was paid $14.20. (The “R” on the image is not a registration mark but indicates that the film was shot for the Raff & Gammon Company, then Edison’s exclusive distributor of kinetoscope machines in North America.)
