Juggling in Movies
Pool Sharks (1915)
[Edwin Middleton film; W.C. Fields, Marian West, Larry Westford]
Two suitors vie for the attention of one woman. Among their battles for supremacy is a game of pool. This is Fields' first movie, a 9 minute silent one-reeler film.
W.C. Fields performs several pool table tricks. Unfortunately, an
opportunity was missed to adequately document the
pool game routine
Fields was performing on the stage at the time, as the filmmakers
instead opted to substitute horrid stop-motion trick photography in the
pool scenes.
At 04:40, W.C. Fields briefly
juggles 4 pool balls.
