Impalement arts
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Impalement arts are a type of performing art in which a performer plays the role of human target for a fellow performer who demonstrates accuracy skills in disciplines such as knife throwing and arche
Astrid Schollenberger demonstrates the position of the target girl in the "profile" stunt.
Astrid Schollenberger in rehearsal faces the knives for real. One is captured in flight, fractions of a second before impact.
The Unknown (1927 film)
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The Unknown is a 1927 American silent horror film directed by Tod Browning, and starring Lon Chaney as carnival knife thrower "Alonzo the Armless" and Joan Crawford as his beloved carnival girl Nanon.
Impalement arts
…worked with the A. G. Barnes Circus and Sideshow and with Zack Miller's Wild West Show. He worked as a double for Lon Chaney in the 1927 silent film The Unknown, in which Chaney played an armless knife thrower. Desmuke married a woman named Mae Dixon in 1926 and she worked with him as his target girl in an…
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The Unknown (1927) Lobby Poster. Lon Chaney as "Alonzo the Armless" with "Cojo" (John George on palm of hand.)
The Unknown, Norman Kerry as Malabar the Mighty and Joan Crawford as Nanon Zanzi
The Unknown (1927), Joan Crawford as Nanon.