Pre-historic Parkour video
A really old and mysterious video of a man moving like actual Traceurs while parkour didn’t seem to exist yet at this time. I don’t know the date of the filming nor the name of the man on the video. He is maybe a firefighter or… what ? The fact is he has some particular capabilities and moves really fast and efficient. If you have any more details about this video or a better version of it, please let a comment 
Edit : The video seems to come from a documentary film named “Gizmo!” (1977) directed by Howard Smith.
A compilation of man inventing strange contraptions from the 1920’s through 1950’s.
Thanks to Omary !
- Gizmo! on Wikipedia
- Parts of the film on Youtube!
- Full film Gizmo! on Google video
- We talked about it on parkour.net : early parkour
- Download this old parkour video (just the parkour part) : pre-historic-parkour-video.zip (2,2Mb | .flv | 1min)
I know this a video from the film Gilzmo. There a some other clips http://www.youtube.com/user/gizmofan
Thank you Omary, I’ve edited the description and added few links
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Who’s he? He’s very good.
that jump at the very end was just ridiculous.. and i mean that in a good way.
WOW!
This guy didn’t even have trainers!!!
I’ve just stumbled into this stuff – I was looking for inspiration for some club wear designs and I came across a Parkour video on YouTube…
I really couldn’t believe my eyes at some of the things you can get up to!
Anyway, I’ll try and get some t-shirts suitable for the free movement that determines the grace and power of Parkour.
I’ve put up a blog about it too – I was that impressed!
http://igotthemusic.com
Maybe I can get some constructive comments back?
Party on!
Er, newbie question – what’s the difference between the terms ‘Tracuer’ and ‘Parkour’?
I’m assuming not much, along the lines of ‘Plimsoles’, Running Shoes’ and ‘Trainers’.
Remember that the speed we are seeing is faster than it really was because of the old filming method they were using back then. So he was not really that fast…
iam the son of the 1930 stuntman the film was a 1942 news reel the film was on eastern parkway in brooklyn n.y 1942 he was 21 years old at the time is idol was tarzan and errol flynn.he was in the news papers arcoss the country 1940s plus he went arcoss times square on a wire in a gorilla and climbed the hotel astor .his name was john ciampa thank you his son john ciampa jr.
that was really great plus unbeliveable with kid on his back
he is not the man jumping off bridge and the tirer part he is climbing the school and the tree plus with the kid on his is back is name is john ciampa it is 1942 not 1930 thank you grandsons
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