The Acrobatic Fly

{{short description|1910 film by F. Percy Smith}}

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{{Infobox film

| name = The Acrobatic Fly

| image = TheAcrobaticFly.jpg

| caption = Screenshot from the film

| director = F. Percy Smith

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| studio = Kineto

| distributor = Charles Urban Trading Company

| released = {{film date|df=yes|1910}}

| runtime = 3 minutes

| country = United Kingdom

| language = Silent

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The Acrobatic Fly (also known as The Balancing Bluebottle) is a 1910 British short silent documentary film, directed by F. Percy Smith, featuring close-ups of a housefly secured to the head of a match and juggling objects with its feet.{{cite web|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1910/02/27/119088526.pdf|title=New Field Found For Moving Pictures|date=27 February 1910|accessdate=1 June 2011|work=New York Times}} The film, "is one of a series of Smith films on similar subjects around this time," and according to Mark Duguid of the BFI is, "near identical to, though briefer than, a sequence in his 1911 release The Strength and Agility of Insects."{{cite web |title=The Acrobatic Fly (1910) |first=Mark |last=Duguid |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hlocZhNc0M |work=BFIfilms YouTube channel |date= 29 January 2008|accessdate=2011-04-24 }}