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(2 votes)Lottie and Francis Circus 2
[edit details]From website: juggling.tv vaults
Performers: Francis Brunn, Lottie Brunn
Keywords: Routine, Historical, Ball Spinning
Props: Balls, Clubs, Rings [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
Lottie Brunn Rehearsal footage/Circus Erie Hagenbeck,Germany---1967. Francis Brunn Rehearsal footage/Circus/Blackpool, England----1964
Francis Brunn Circus Act
[edit details]From website: juggling.tv vaults
Performers: Francis Brunn
Keywords: Routine, Historical, Ball Spinning
Props: Balls, Rings [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10]
From the Old School Jugglers DVD. Audio resynched, but poor. Brunn's full routine, introduced by Tony Curtis. Amazing.
Format: mp4 Size: 58.5 Mbytes download: juggling.tv
Brunn Combination trick
[edit details]From website: Juggling Information Service (JIS)
Performers: Francis Brunn
Keywords: Historical, Ball Spinning
Props: Balls, Rings
This is Francis Brunn's famous combination trick, also from his appearance on the Jack Benny show. Standing on his left leg, Francis spins 2 large rings on his right leg, and 2 more on his right arm, as he spins a large ball on his right forefinger. A smaller ball is perched on top of a stick held in his mouth, while another ball sits on a stick balanced on his forehead. At the same time, Francis juggles 3 rings effortlessly in his left hand. Though often copied by many, this trick has never been duplicated completely by anyone with Brunn's excellent style and showmanship. This video is also available re-encoded at a better frame rate: Search IJDb videos for 'Brunn' to find it.
Francis Brunn in rehearsal
[edit details]From website: juggling.tv vaults
Performers: Francis Brunn
Keywords: Routine, Historical
Props: Balls, Rings
Francis practises his flamenco styled routine. Filmed in Puerto Rico.
Lottie/Francis Brunn ------Ed Sullivan Show
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Performers: Francis Brunn, Lottie Brunn
Keywords: Routine, Historical, Ball Spinning
Props: Balls, Rings
Lottie and Francis on the Ed Sullivan Show 1959/1960
Jack Benny Show
[edit details]From website: knaeuel.stw-bonn.de
Performers: Francis Brunn
Keywords: Routine, Historical, Ball Spinning
Francis Brunn, one of the world's greatest jugglers, performs on the Jack Benny show.
brunn_kick.mpg
[edit details]From website: Juggling Information Service (JIS)
Performers: Francis Brunn
Keywords: Routine, Historical, Ball Spinning
This is a segment of an appearance by Francis Brunn on the Jack Benny television show in 1961, and shows what I often describe to others as an utterly impossible trick. Francis holds 2 large balls in his left hand, which do nothing except to demonstrate that his left hand is not used. He holds a large ball in his right hand, and kicks another large ball from his foot to his forehead. He spins the ball in his right hand on his finger, and then drops the ball on his forehead to the back of his neck as he bends forward. He then straightens up, dropping the ball on his neck down his back. Just before it reaches the ground, he kicks it with his heel, causing it to fly back up over his head in front of him. As it descends, he catches it perfectly, on top of the other ball, still spinning on his finger! Note that this is not done with editing, or by giving him many chances until he got it. This is one of the tricks Brunn performed in his act, in front of live audiences, every night.