Well I knew nothing of this till today! Thanks to a reader, I have found a Pathe News item on the subject. It was known as Barry’s Sensational Motodrome
Lion Riding Wall of Death
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Well I knew nothing of this till today! Thanks to a reader, I have found a Pathe News item on the subject. It was known as Barry’s Sensational Motodrome
The following cartoon is centred on a menagerie booth (Reise Grose Menagerie) where panic has apparently broken out due to an escaped lion (Lowe Kommt! – Lion Coming!). It probably appeared in a German magazine during the mid nineteenth century.